{"id":111115,"date":"2022-06-25T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111115"},"modified":"2022-07-15T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T06:35:13","slug":"hour-six-dear-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-six-dear-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Six: Dear almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Dear almost friend<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I would have still met you<br \/>\nat our secret place to exchange<br \/>\nour sweet sorrows and star speckled dreams,<br \/>\nto imagine a brave world where we ruled,<br \/>\nfree from restrictive curfews<br \/>\nand the necessity of social choice.<\/p>\n<p>How naive were we to believe<br \/>\nwe could mould and carve our destiny?<br \/>\nit was laid for me as for you<br \/>\nbut i will still give you strength.<\/p>\n<p>I will not compete, I will not complain<br \/>\nI will not act selfish, I will listen<br \/>\nI will give back the love that was duly yours<br \/>\nI will not guard and fence my thoughts<br \/>\nI will pick up the phone to dial your contact to speak to you,<br \/>\nI will not merely be a flickering flashback<br \/>\nin the long reels of bittersweet memories.<br \/>\nafter all these years, i will be the friend you needed me to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">We would still buy coffee<br \/>\nand compare notes on cheap paperbacks.<br \/>\nIn the tide of time, you and I will still exist,<br \/>\nas if we are friends and <em>not just like friends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear almost friend I would have still met you at our secret place to exchange our sweet sorrows and star speckled dreams, to imagine a brave world where we ruled, free from restrictive curfews and the necessity of social choice. How naive were we to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,441],"tags":[5074],"class_list":["post-111115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon2022-halfpoetrymarathon-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115","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\/4451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124910,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111115\/revisions\/124910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}