{"id":12448,"date":"2015-06-14T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12448"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:05:53","slug":"poem-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that it were easier to let go.<br \/>\nIgnoring the traumas of the past,<br \/>\nLetting the weights drop free of your shoulders,<br \/>\nAnd wafting up into the clear night sky.<\/p>\n<p>I wish it was as easy as,<br \/>\nwriting the event down on a piece of paper and burning it,<br \/>\nOr sending its descrption in a lantern,<br \/>\nand setting it free.<\/p>\n<p>I wish that leaving the past behind was that easy.<br \/>\nForgetting the events that still flash in front of your eyes and send you shivering, or sobbing.<br \/>\nOr pushing out the people in your life who have hurt you,<br \/>\nand just letting them fade off into the distance,<br \/>\nnever to trouble your thoughts again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish that it were easier to let go. Ignoring the traumas of the past, Letting the weights drop free of your shoulders, And wafting up into the clear night sky. I wish it was as easy as, writing the event down on a piece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12494,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions\/12494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}