{"id":121192,"date":"2022-06-26T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121192"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:36:17","slug":"tenderness-lost-hour-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tenderness-lost-hour-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenderness Lost  (hour 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped betwixt the woods and swamp<\/p>\n<p>the truck is broken, stopped<\/p>\n<p>like a love now stumped, bumped<\/p>\n<p>tenderness began this mess<\/p>\n<p>or lack of it, long after white dress<\/p>\n<p>no more caress, relations either<\/p>\n<p>bi-yearly, except for something other<\/p>\n<p>allowed, but now an addict\u2019s problem<\/p>\n<p>eyes on screen, just can\u2019t stop \u2018em<\/p>\n<p>no soft words, just anger mumbled<\/p>\n<p>talking once calm, now hearing fumbled<\/p>\n<p>you dare advise, when yours is marred?<\/p>\n<p>Decisions she must make, but stuck<\/p>\n<p>like his sputtering, stuttering truck<\/p>\n<p>cares enough to strive, revive,<\/p>\n<p>with tender tries<\/p>\n<p>this broken thing<\/p>\n<p>before love stings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 25, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped betwixt the woods and swamp the truck is broken, stopped like a love now stumped, bumped tenderness began this mess or lack of it, long after white dress no more caress, relations either bi-yearly, except for something other allowed, but now an addict\u2019s problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121192","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121488,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121192\/revisions\/121488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}