{"id":96762,"date":"2021-06-26T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96762"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:31:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:31:18","slug":"normal-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/normal-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal (Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When my shadow broke from me, cast out, misshapen,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I prayed for a mold to make me right,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">placed faith in an average that could dull such extremes,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a chameleon\u2019s tone concealing everything unique.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a moment in the car <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when we were driving down to the lake,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you read poetry aloud from a book I kept in the console,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we found it then, <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it touched us for an instant<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as we engaged in a place we never reached before.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It wasn\u2019t normal, but perhaps was the idea <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of how I thought normal might feel.<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my shadow broke from me, cast out, misshapen, I prayed for a mold to make me right, placed faith in an average that could dull such extremes, a chameleon\u2019s tone concealing everything unique. There was a moment in the car when we were driving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96762","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100375,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96762\/revisions\/100375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}