{"id":94814,"date":"2021-06-26T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94814"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:01:19","slug":"hour-7-normal-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-7-normal-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Define normal:<\/p>\n<p>Cookie-cutter<\/p>\n<p>Carbon copy<\/p>\n<p>Boxed in<\/p>\n<p>Polite, smile, nod<\/p>\n<p>Cross your legs<\/p>\n<p>Stand up Straight<\/p>\n<p>Sit down<\/p>\n<p>Shut up<\/p>\n<p>Know your place<\/p>\n<p>Do as you&#8217;re told<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t talk back<\/p>\n<p>Do not question<\/p>\n<p>Do not think<\/p>\n<p>Accept, Resign, Submit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I do not fit that mold<\/p>\n<p>I ooze across the baking sheet<\/p>\n<p>Spill out of that box<\/p>\n<p>I argue, cry, shake my head<\/p>\n<p>I slouch and lean<\/p>\n<p>I am not silent<\/p>\n<p>I rebel, (did I mention I argue?)<\/p>\n<p>I think lovely and radical thoughts<\/p>\n<p>I question everything<\/p>\n<p>Including your idea of &#8220;normalcy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So please accept my apology if I do not resign myself to your definition<\/p>\n<p>I submit to no one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Define normal: Cookie-cutter Carbon copy Boxed in Polite, smile, nod Cross your legs Stand up Straight Sit down Shut up Know your place Do as you&#8217;re told Don&#8217;t talk back Do not question Do not think Accept, Resign, Submit &nbsp; I do not fit that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94814","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94879,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94814\/revisions\/94879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}