{"id":9481,"date":"2015-06-13T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:47:37","slug":"my-two-front-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/my-two-front-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"my two front teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>every time i go to the dentist now,<br \/>\nthey ask if i want to close the gap<br \/>\nbetween my two front teeth.<br \/>\nthat i\u2019ve always had<br \/>\nand no one said anything before<br \/>\ni was 40 years old.<br \/>\nmy grandfather was my dentist<br \/>\nand he must have liked the gap,<br \/>\nbecause i do.<br \/>\nas a kid, and sometimes now,<br \/>\ni\u2019ll stick something in there.<br \/>\na dime fits well,<br \/>\nnot a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>i say, no, i want to keep my gap<br \/>\nand whoever it is, just shrugs<br \/>\nher shoulders<br \/>\nas if i\u2019m making a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>lauren hutton had a gap that<br \/>\nmade her famous.<br \/>\nshe was on magazine covers<br \/>\nwith a gap between her teeth.<br \/>\ni bet her dentist didn\u2019t ask if she<br \/>\nwanted to close it.<\/p>\n<p>so i\u2019m not perfect<br \/>\nand i\u2019m not on magazine covers.<\/p>\n<p>i love the gap<\/p>\n<p>it makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>every time i go to the dentist now, they ask if i want to close the gap between my two front teeth. that i\u2019ve always had and no one said anything before i was 40 years old. my grandfather was my dentist and he must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}