{"id":11332,"date":"2015-06-13T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2015-06-13T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:46:05","slug":"512-facing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/512-facing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"(#5\/12): \u201cFacing It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limbs that once were limber,<\/p>\n<p>Mind that once was nimble,<\/p>\n<p>With youthful insouciance,<\/p>\n<p>Inexhaustible energy,<\/p>\n<p>And boundless enthusiasm,<\/p>\n<p>I stormed through time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now I look in the mirror,<\/p>\n<p>And it stares piteously back at me.<\/p>\n<p>The lines time has sanded across,<\/p>\n<p>Furrowed with decades of thoughtless concentration,<\/p>\n<p>A traverse of inconsequential tracks,<\/p>\n<p>My tapestry of life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The truth can be hard to bear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2015 Silvester Phua<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limbs that once were limber, Mind that once was nimble, With youthful insouciance, Inexhaustible energy, And boundless enthusiasm, I stormed through time. &nbsp; Now I look in the mirror, And it stares piteously back at me. The lines time has sanded across, Furrowed with decades&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}