{"id":101602,"date":"2021-06-27T05:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101602"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:51:47","slug":"self-portrait-of-a-people-pleaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/self-portrait-of-a-people-pleaser\/","title":{"rendered":"self-portrait of a people-pleaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to look at me<\/p>\n<p>is to look at a<\/p>\n<p>two-way mirror from<\/p>\n<p>the closed side<\/p>\n<p>see only your face<\/p>\n<p>looking slightly wrong<\/p>\n<p>but still yours<\/p>\n<p>while I stand on the other side<\/p>\n<p>frantically trying to maintain<\/p>\n<p>the illusion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">love yourself and you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">will love me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">there is no other way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">to do it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">one day you might<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">realize there is more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">behind a wall of glass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">you never thought to break<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">but by then I&#8217;ll know you well enough<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">to convince you it would be a mistake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to look at me is to look at a two-way mirror from the closed side see only your face looking slightly wrong but still yours while I stand on the other side frantically trying to maintain the illusion &nbsp; love yourself and you will love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4740,4762,4726],"class_list":["post-101602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021prompt19","tag-mirrors","tag-self-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101613,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101602\/revisions\/101613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}