{"id":121986,"date":"2022-06-26T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121986"},"modified":"2023-06-21T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:50:48","slug":"softer-prompt-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/softer-prompt-22\/","title":{"rendered":"softer (prompt 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it was missing all this time but I never really noticed<br \/>\nif I had never met you, I&#8217;d still be searching for it<br \/>\nwithout a name or a description<br \/>\njust knowing that a void exists<br \/>\nwith only theories on what more I was lacking<\/p>\n<p>I thought I needed someone strong<br \/>\nthey&#8217;d have to be strong &#8211; stronger than me<br \/>\nI never considered tenderness a quality<br \/>\nthat could sooth my constant ache<\/p>\n<p>isn&#8217;t it strange when we hear &#8220;tender&#8221;<br \/>\nand instead envision &#8220;weak&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>it was softness that allowed me<br \/>\nto walk through rooms unguarded<br \/>\nnot steel plated unbreakable<br \/>\na wild card brought me to life<\/p>\n<p>I needed someone who didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nto try so hard<br \/>\nto be so hard<br \/>\nto make it hard<br \/>\nto love me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was missing all this time but I never really noticed if I had never met you, I&#8217;d still be searching for it without a name or a description just knowing that a void exists with only theories on what more I was lacking I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121986","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125457,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121986\/revisions\/125457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}