{"id":2685,"date":"2020-12-21T03:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","slug":"scars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/12\/21\/scars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scars 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/scar-IMG_20201221_030359379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/scar-IMG_20201221_030359379.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"947\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2686\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>blemishes mark who I am<br \/>\none inch, left leg<br \/>\nlearning to shave<\/p>\n<p>another inch, right hand<br \/>\ndiving in a sea of rock<br \/>\nto catch a football<\/p>\n<p>steak knife, right hand<br \/>\nfrom my sister<br \/>\nbecause it was my turn to watch tv<\/p>\n<p>large blotch, right hand<br \/>\na fall from hiking<br \/>\nat the Navs&#8217; HQ in Colorado<\/p>\n<p>quarter of an inch, left index finger<br \/>\na gash from the drive bay<br \/>\nwhen building Amber&#8217;s computer<\/p>\n<p>round blotch, left arm<br \/>\nsmallpox vaccination<br \/>\nto save me from disease<\/p>\n<p>there are other<br \/>\npermanent reminders<br \/>\nI cannot recall<\/p>\n<p>raised skin across my body<br \/>\nsome have flashes of memory<br \/>\nothers, there is nothingness<\/p>\n<p>I am my scars<br \/>\nthe good, the bad<br \/>\nthe fondness, the horror<\/p>\n<p>I am my scars<br \/>\non the inside<br \/>\non the outside<\/p>\n<p>they are the marks of survival<br \/>\nsmall and large moments<br \/>\nin a half-century life<\/p>\n<p>remembered or not<br \/>\ncherished or defiled<br \/>\nthey are the story of me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[285,294,377],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-ptsd","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}