{"id":110018,"date":"2022-06-25T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110018"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:34:53","slug":"do-you-mourn-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/do-you-mourn-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Mourn Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>content warning: just comparisons to my past self.<\/p>\n<p>Do you mourn me?<br \/>\nChild-that-was, person<br \/>\nof could-have should-have,<br \/>\npossibilities dying in the light<br \/>\nof summer sun.<\/p>\n<p>I could go back,<br \/>\nand trace my own face,<br \/>\nhold tight to each flaw<br \/>\nand rounded feature.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t go back;<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t be &#8220;her&#8221; again,<br \/>\ntime caressed the memory<br \/>\nof who I once was.<\/p>\n<p>Do you mourn me?<br \/>\nWe are still the same:<br \/>\n&#8220;she&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221;,<br \/>\nyounger and older,<br \/>\nI find peace in knowing<br \/>\nI was never lost.<\/p>\n<p>Do not mourn me;<br \/>\nI am still here,<br \/>\nstanding before you.<br \/>\nLike earth from a river,<br \/>\nI was carved;<br \/>\nbut with sculptor&#8217;s hands,<br \/>\nI carved myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>content warning: just comparisons to my past self. Do you mourn me? Child-that-was, person of could-have should-have, possibilities dying in the light of summer sun. I could go back, and trace my own face, hold tight to each flaw and rounded feature. I couldn&#8217;t go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110018","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\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110143,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110018\/revisions\/110143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}