{"id":59,"date":"2017-01-20T23:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/?p=59"},"modified":"2020-02-16T23:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:32:26","slug":"144-by-sandro-ortega-riek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/144-by-sandro-ortega-riek\/","title":{"rendered":"144 by anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This poem is a response to our January prompt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>144<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So odd what we cling to<br \/>\neven four years out of the treatment center:<br \/>\nthe BMI equation I still remember.<br \/>\nWhatever it meant for me to weigh 105 pounds,<br \/>\nit\u2019s a tremor in the back of my head.<br \/>\nThey say recovery takes at least seven years.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been four since I started recovery,<br \/>\nthree since I first relapsed, two and a half since the last time.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s complicated, but I\u2019m venturing a reflection.<br \/>\nIn the mirror I don\u2019t look much different<br \/>\nthan I have always looked, at least, not to my eyes, and<br \/>\nthose are the eyes that matter. My mind<br \/>\nis different, though, like a root is different from a seed.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think it defined me.<\/p>\n<p>So odd what we cling to,<br \/>\neven after we think we have sloughed our burdens;<br \/>\nso odd the way a burden can become a gift. I can attempt some wisdom,<br \/>\nif you\u2019d like to listen: stay close to the ground.<br \/>\nKeep one hand on the soil and the other<br \/>\npressed to your belly. Remember and relinquish;<br \/>\nstrike a balance, remain hopeful, don\u2019t ever<br \/>\nthink you are nothing without your pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is a response to our January prompt. 144 So odd what we cling to even four years out of the treatment center: the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-sandro-ortega-riek"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/scrippsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}