{"id":9525,"date":"2015-06-13T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9525"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:36:19","slug":"scar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/scar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scar 2  (9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silvery ripples across my hips<br \/>\nflowing thickly towards my thighs<br \/>\nunnoticed until the sun bronzes my skin<br \/>\nbut leaves these symbols untouched.<\/p>\n<p>I cup my bare breasts, lifting<br \/>\nturning this way and that to catch<br \/>\na twinkle. Faintly, twins of the<br \/>\nlower branches wink in the light.<\/p>\n<p>My belly escaped these cicatrix<br \/>\ninternalizing its own failures<br \/>\nby heads tucked into rib cages<br \/>\npressing lungs for months on end. <\/p>\n<p>When the life has drained<br \/>\nall that&#8217;s left are the scars<br \/>\nlike grooves on the bottom of<br \/>\nan ancient, dried creek bed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvery ripples across my hips flowing thickly towards my thighs unnoticed until the sun bronzes my skin but leaves these symbols untouched. I cup my bare breasts, lifting turning this way and that to catch a twinkle. Faintly, twins of the lower branches wink in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[327,326,10],"class_list":["post-9525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-karnitz","tag-marathon","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9525\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}