{"id":115771,"date":"2022-06-25T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115771"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:20:59","slug":"down-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/down-to-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to the Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I started<br \/>\nA part of me changed when you left<br \/>\nI wanted something new<br \/>\nand also to forget.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t the smartest option<br \/>\nat the time I thought had no other option<br \/>\nthere was only one way to go<br \/>\nall the way down to the bottom.<br \/>\nNow, I&#8217;m here<br \/>\nsitting across from familiar strangers<br \/>\nall with a story to tell<br \/>\nour monthly gathering<br \/>\nto cope with it all.<br \/>\nI feel ashamed to be here<br \/>\nthis isn&#8217;t where I belong<br \/>\nintervention took place<br \/>\nif only I was strong.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s light at the end of the tunnel<br \/>\nI can see a way out<br \/>\nJim has put his bourbon down<br \/>\nJohnnie is cleaning up his act<br \/>\nthey provide me with inspiration<br \/>\nonce a month at this gathering,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why I started A part of me changed when you left I wanted something new and also to forget. It wasn&#8217;t the smartest option at the time I thought had no other option there was only one way to go all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115771","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\/2973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116034,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115771\/revisions\/116034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}