{"id":854,"date":"2021-06-18T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=854"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:47:53","slug":"my-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/my-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"My Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world had closed up I stared into my mouth, mirrored forth.<br>I saw the world opening amongst broken, yellow pearls.<br>Paths revealed themselves in front of me, some south, some north.<br>Unfamiliar and not a crossroads, as such, my hazy vision swirled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The glass holding my toothbrush smashed on the floor. <br>A reverberation of the crash seemed to last forever.<br>I looked down. Red blood at my feet. A hole opened up to the door.<br>Once imprisoned. Now an escape route of falling and landing never.<br><br>Is this flight? Surely not fight. More likely fright.<br>I felt trapped, caught, constrained in this emotional hell.<br>Beyond repair, hoping for a fix, another episode at the dentist might.<br>I used a brush to sweep up the shards. In guilt, shame and fear I dwell. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world had closed up I stared into my mouth, mirrored forth.I saw the world opening amongst broken, yellow pearls.Paths revealed themselves in front of me, some south, some north.Unfamiliar and not a crossroads, as such, my hazy vision swirled. The glass holding my toothbrush smashed on the floor. A reverberation of the crash &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/my-teeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Teeth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}