{"id":126942,"date":"2023-09-02T09:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126942"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:33:13","slug":"survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He saw me<br \/>\nHe saw me with scars over my eyes<br \/>\nGauged by those who would keep me down<br \/>\nHe saw the hemorrhaging from a thousand cuts<br \/>\nHe saw the weight of a life in service<br \/>\nTo a band of emotional thieves<br \/>\nHe wrapped a cloak of healing around my battered being<br \/>\nListened with great intent<br \/>\nAnd stayed because he could see the layer beneath<br \/>\nIn time I could see the outline of a man with a looming past<br \/>\nAching and reaching for his soul\u2019s lifeboat<br \/>\nAs the waters of doubt swirled and threatened<br \/>\nTo take him down at last<br \/>\nPaddling together, We reach the shore<br \/>\nOf a partial island with scarce supplies<br \/>\nOnly enough to sustain what life was left<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He saw me He saw me with scars over my eyes Gauged by those who would keep me down He saw the hemorrhaging from a thousand cuts He saw the weight of a life in service To a band of emotional thieves He wrapped a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,5],"tags":[5774],"class_list":["post-126942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-prompt12023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126942","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\/1163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127230,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126942\/revisions\/127230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}