{"id":99686,"date":"2021-06-27T01:42:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99686"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:42:15","slug":"hour-17-the-thing-about-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-17-the-thing-about-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17 &#8211; The Thing about Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration &#8211; \u201cI stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.\u201d \u2013 Hanif Abdurraqib<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The thing about grief is<\/p>\n<p>it is alive and warm<\/p>\n<p>like a child<\/p>\n<p>and begs to be fed, nurtured<\/p>\n<p>you obey and it grows<\/p>\n<p>within you<\/p>\n<p>eating you<\/p>\n<p>mimicking you enough to<\/p>\n<p>convince it IS you.<\/p>\n<p>Hoodwinks you to think<\/p>\n<p>you are &#8216;over it&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>and have &#8216;moved on&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>but it is there &#8211; festering, biding<\/p>\n<p>its presence betrayed<\/p>\n<p>only through your words<\/p>\n<p>and paints<\/p>\n<p>and lonely sobs on a winter night<\/p>\n<p>conjuring memories<\/p>\n<p>picking at scabs<\/p>\n<p>making sure every laceration lasts<\/p>\n<p>till the agony it inflicts becomes your succor<\/p>\n<p>a leech disguised as savior<\/p>\n<p>until the day comes<\/p>\n<p>it pushes too far<\/p>\n<p>the mask rips open<\/p>\n<p>and you jolt awake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration &#8211; \u201cI stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.\u201d \u2013 Hanif Abdurraqib &nbsp; The thing about grief is it is alive and warm like a child and begs to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103270,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99686\/revisions\/103270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}