{"id":61,"date":"2009-12-04T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-12-04T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:16:15","slug":"the-voices-inside-my-head-dont-have-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"The Voices Inside My Head Don&#039;t Have to Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do.  I have to breathe.  When I stand in front of a group of people to read poetry, I have to breathe.  I wish I wrote with my own need to breathe in mind.  That would make it so much easier to stand up and say my poems out loud.  My friend tells me that I should read slower because people need more time to process what they are hearing.  I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s true.  But when I hear myself think it is with fluidity and rapidity, with a kind of musicality that could only be interrupted by sticking places to breathe into it.<\/p>\n<p>Next time I write a poem I&#8217;m going to write breath marks into it as if I were writing a piece for the flute.  Then I&#8217;m going to practice reading it with breaths in the predetermined spots.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.  That&#8217;s all I want to say.  I promised I would blog every day during December.  I&#8217;ve just come from a reading of poems during which all I could think about was how much I needed to breathe.  I&#8217;m sure I need more time on the treadmill and some new asthma medicine, but I also need to convince the voice I hear inside me when I write that it would have to breathe if it said that many words in a row out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do. I have to breathe. When I stand in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}