{"id":108473,"date":"2022-06-25T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108473"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:18:08","slug":"always-blank-never-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/always-blank-never-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Always, Never (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always the bridesmaid, never the bride<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what they say<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s so much more to me<br \/>\nThan my marital or relationship status<\/p>\n<p>How about<br \/>\nAlways kind, never cruel<br \/>\nOr maybe even<br \/>\nAlways thoughtful, never superficial<\/p>\n<p>Always helpful, never neglectful<br \/>\nAlways smiling, never sad<br \/>\nAlways enthusiastic, never a drag<br \/>\nAlways hopeful, never doubtful<\/p>\n<p>Always sees the best in others<br \/>\nNever belittles or derides<br \/>\nAlways wanting to make you smile<br \/>\nNever wanting to hurt you<\/p>\n<p>Never is s strong word<br \/>\nSo final and concrete<br \/>\nLife isn&#8217;t always so absolute<br \/>\nMaybe &#8220;not always&#8221; would fit better?<\/p>\n<p>Always supportive, not always supported<br \/>\nAlways dreaming, not always achieving<br \/>\nAlways here to please, not always satisfied<br \/>\nAlways behind the scenes, not always center stage<\/p>\n<p>Always doing more, not always appreciated<br \/>\nAlways fighting, not always winning<br \/>\nAlways have things to say, not always heard<br \/>\nAlways a little sister, not always an equal<\/p>\n<p>I am more than my social standing<br \/>\nMore than my failures and shortcomings<br \/>\nI am more than society sees<br \/>\nMore than people realize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always the bridesmaid, never the bride That&#8217;s what they say But there&#8217;s so much more to me Than my marital or relationship status How about Always kind, never cruel Or maybe even Always thoughtful, never superficial Always helpful, never neglectful Always smiling, never sad Always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129849,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108473\/revisions\/129849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}