{"id":102801,"date":"2021-06-27T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102801"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:13:13","slug":"hour-15-yes-is-an-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-15-yes-is-an-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15 &#8211; Yes is an Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wish that I had known back then<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That asking for help was an option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the downward spiral, before<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I took things out on myself, before\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had failed out of college, before<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was a shell of who I used to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When someone asked if I\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Needed help, I desperately wish<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had known that \u2018yes\u2019 was an option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That \u2018yes\u2019 would open doors that<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could\u2019ve saved me from so much<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead, I took 10 years to see<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That suffering was not the only\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choice, like I had seen others<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make. I could do it differently\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And end the cycle with me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that I had known back then That asking for help was an option.\u00a0 &nbsp; Before the downward spiral, before I took things out on myself, before\u00a0 I had failed out of college, before I was a shell of who I used to be.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102801","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102810,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102801\/revisions\/102810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}