{"id":108676,"date":"2022-06-25T11:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108676"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:29:04","slug":"hour-3-the-only-boy-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-3-the-only-boy-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3 : The Only Boy I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Only Boy I Love<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The only boy I love likes La la land and Mimosa. The flower not the drink. Or maybe both,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I never asked him and it amazes me how we still have so many things to find out about each other after all the years and texts and late night talks.<\/p>\n<p>The only cishet guy in my heart likes glitter and penguins. Reads me recipes to calm me down. Doesn\u2019t show up to a Pride march if he isn\u2019t invited. Always comes and get me when I call in the middle of a party. Tells me about all the cute girls. Helps me with my boy bow ties. Asks if it\u2019s okay\u00a0 before he does anything.<\/p>\n<p>The only boy I love tells me on a train he could help me make a baby if I needed him to.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And still our friends seem surprised when they come visit and notice\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve got pictures of him in every single room.<\/p>\n<p>The only boy I love is the one I can\u2019t make a home without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Only Boy I Love The only boy I love likes La la land and Mimosa. The flower not the drink. Or maybe both,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I never asked him and it amazes me how we still have so many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108676","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\/2846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108735,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108676\/revisions\/108735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}