{"id":109440,"date":"2022-06-25T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109440"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:26:04","slug":"soulmates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/soulmates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4 &#8211; Soulmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They disagree about soulmates,<br \/>\nbut concur on their connection,<br \/>\nhard-won and inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>There was only one bed<br \/>\nto bring their bodies together<br \/>\nand trade hesitant whispers. <\/p>\n<p>There are so many beds<br \/>\nand they still choose to sleep<br \/>\nin each other\u2019s arms. <\/p>\n<p>They find each other soon,<br \/>\nyoung and curious, fast friends<br \/>\nwho only grow closer. <\/p>\n<p>They find each other late,<br \/>\nmature and jaded, suspicious,<br \/>\nbut teach themselves to trust. <\/p>\n<p>They fight through many trials,<br \/>\nforced to cling to one another<br \/>\nin a ceaseless storm of fear. <\/p>\n<p>They live a life of peace, a slow<br \/>\nbeginning, middle, and conclusion<br \/>\nfilled with mild banter and fondness. <\/p>\n<p>They end their lives together<br \/>\nfilled with desperate, terrified hope<br \/>\nthat will not save them. <\/p>\n<p>They survive the worst of it,<br \/>\nand emerge from the wreckage<br \/>\nchanged, but never alone. <\/p>\n<p>Tragic, romantic, desperate, simple:<br \/>\nthey have fallen in love many times,<br \/>\nand they shall fall in love again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They disagree about soulmates, but concur on their connection, hard-won and inevitable. There was only one bed to bring their bodies together and trade hesitant whispers. There are so many beds and they still choose to sleep in each other\u2019s arms. They find each other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110327,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440\/revisions\/110327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}