{"id":3707,"date":"2019-08-18T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2019-08-19T04:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T10:59:46","slug":"polished-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2019\/08\/18\/polished-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Polished skin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"poem wp-block-list\"><li>A fraying thread now fading red knitting my heart splitting apart.<\/li><li>A crimson rag I glisten tag the lonely tears that hold my fears.<\/li><li>A tattered shawl in battered brawl comforts my back from hurt and crack,<\/li><li>It flood with red from blood I shed, my weighted yoke, deflated, broke.<\/li><li>A scarlet rope \u2018round scar-red hope to bind a hole in mind and soul. <\/li><li>A ruddy pin so bloody thin securing pain, injured again. <\/li><li>A cherry cloth, it nary doth erase away the basest ache. <\/li><li>And here I sit so counterfeit with polished skin but mauled within. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fraying thread now fading red knitting my heart splitting apart. A crimson rag I glisten tag the lonely tears that hold my fears. A tattered shawl in battered brawl comforts my back from hurt and crack, It flood with red from blood I shed, my weighted yoke, deflated, broke. A scarlet rope \u2018round scar-red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/08\/img_1812.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-XN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3056,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2011\/10\/09\/ode-to-mary\/","url_meta":{"origin":3707,"position":0},"title":"Ode to Mary","author":"Kim Siever","date":"9 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Honey sweet, cotton soft, Snowy fair, mountain top, Ocean blue, angel song, Evening still, sunset long. 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