{"id":119,"date":"2018-11-16T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=119"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:58:35","slug":"changing-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/changing-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"CHANGING SKINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHANGING SKINS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I admit I am powerless over alcohol<br \/>\nfrom AA&#8217;s &#8220;The Twelve Steps&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Easier to be a snake.<br \/>\nFind a spot,<br \/>\nbreathe in slowly and feel<br \/>\nthe skin pop. Wiggle<br \/>\nuntil the head is out,<br \/>\nkeep moving,<br \/>\nleave behind<br \/>\nold scales.<br \/>\nWait for the soft<br \/>\nouter layer<br \/>\nto harden<br \/>\nbefore you climb<br \/>\nback down.<\/p>\n<p>Iris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGING SKINS I admit I am powerless over alcohol from AA&#8217;s &#8220;The Twelve Steps&#8221; Easier to be a snake. Find a spot, breathe in slowly and feel the skin pop. Wiggle until the head is out, keep moving, leave behind old scales. Wait for the soft outer layer to harden before you climb back down.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/changing-skins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHANGING SKINS<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}