{"id":97054,"date":"2021-06-26T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97054"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:39:54","slug":"under-the-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/under-the-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Under the Influence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Martin drove me back to the university<\/p>\n<p>after a weekend at home. Twenty five miles<\/p>\n<p>to a different universe. That&#8217;s what I thought then.<\/p>\n<p>He parked the Impala and walked me up<\/p>\n<p>to my shared room at New Dorms. Want me to come in,<\/p>\n<p>he said. I told him he could go home. Like a princess to a serf.<\/p>\n<p>A princess with apprehension. He turned to the stairs;<\/p>\n<p>I opened the door. My roommate Judy was there,<\/p>\n<p>some friends, the smoky air thick and sweet with grass.<\/p>\n<p>What if my father had come in? I said, my voice, usually too loud<\/p>\n<p>muted by laughter, Dylan&#8217;s songs, and stoned exclamations.<\/p>\n<p>Someone was lounging in my bed.<\/p>\n<p>Next day, Martin called. What would I have seen, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I said, improvising, some friends sprawled everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>You know, college. He didn&#8217;t know but he wasn&#8217;t thick.<\/p>\n<p>Be smart, he said. Don&#8217;t get carried away.<\/p>\n<p>You want to talk to Mama?<\/p>\n<p>I told him I&#8217;d call the next day.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered but I didn&#8217;t pick up the phone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Influence &nbsp; Martin drove me back to the university after a weekend at home. Twenty five miles to a different universe. That&#8217;s what I thought then. He parked the Impala and walked me up to my shared room at New Dorms. Want me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054","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\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97503,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97054\/revisions\/97503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}