{"id":106536,"date":"2022-06-25T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106536"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:54:12","slug":"half-marathon-poem-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/half-marathon-poem-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I do this impossible thing? &#8211; Half Marathon Poem #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>How do I do this impossible thing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You ask me to go on<br \/>\nwith my life as if<br \/>\nnothing happened,<br \/>\nas if you weren&#8217;t<br \/>\nsuddenly half a continent<br \/>\naway.<\/p>\n<p>As if our already too<br \/>\ninfrequent time together<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t made impossible<br \/>\nby distance and circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I have ever<br \/>\nneeded to hold you,<br \/>\nbut I need to be in<br \/>\nyour presence.<\/p>\n<p>I am a wildflower,<br \/>\nstruggling through the<br \/>\ntangle of the wilderness,<br \/>\naiming its face at the sun<br \/>\nbathing in the light and<br \/>\nglory of its radiance.<\/p>\n<p>Love, I shall survive<br \/>\nthough I cannot <em>live<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I do this impossible thing? You ask me to go on with my life as if nothing happened, as if you weren&#8217;t suddenly half a continent away. As if our already too infrequent time together wasn&#8217;t made impossible by distance and circumstance. It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536","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\/4007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123165,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536\/revisions\/123165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}