{"id":111482,"date":"2022-06-25T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111482"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:49:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:49:10","slug":"you-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/you-tried\/","title":{"rendered":"You Tried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My saviour,<\/p>\n<p>You tried, I know<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t cry, for I still feel your pain<br \/>\nLike you felt mine<br \/>\nYou tried, I know<\/p>\n<p>You were my saviour<br \/>\nwhen you picked me from the streets<br \/>\nYou were my saviour<br \/>\nwhen you granted me a better death<br \/>\nYou tried, I know<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t understand much of<br \/>\nwhat was happening to me<br \/>\nbut I knew, you would do right by me<br \/>\nOr whatever you did was certainly right to me<br \/>\nYou tried, I know!<\/p>\n<p>You cried as you called out my name<br \/>\nand I came to you even in my pain<br \/>\nYou put the leash around my neck<br \/>\nfor the first and the last time<br \/>\nYou tried, I know!<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t used to the leash<br \/>\nSo I fought and it tightened around my neck<br \/>\nLike a noose<br \/>\nAnd you yelled out in pain, more than me<br \/>\nYou tried, I know!<\/p>\n<p>It was time for me to go<br \/>\nYou could not see me suffer so<br \/>\nSo, I lay as you helped me die<br \/>\nI just went deeper into sleep<br \/>\nYou tried, I know!<\/p>\n<p>I will wait for you beyond the rainbow bridge<br \/>\nFor now, I&#8217;ll pray to be your smile<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all I was, that&#8217;s all I wanted<br \/>\nI tried, you know!<\/p>\n<p>Yours faithfully,<br \/>\nPuppy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My saviour, You tried, I know Don&#8217;t cry, for I still feel your pain Like you felt mine You tried, I know You were my saviour when you picked me from the streets You were my saviour when you granted me a better death You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4909,2265],"class_list":["post-111482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-hour6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111482","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111531,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111482\/revisions\/111531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}