{"id":127689,"date":"2023-09-02T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127689"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:10:46","slug":"hour-2-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-2-10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 10 Years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>My head floated like a balloon<\/p>\n<p>above everything<\/p>\n<p>imagining the best.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>my body worked better.<\/p>\n<p>It has always felt weighed down.<\/p>\n<p>But not like today<\/p>\n<p>as it holds me prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>Hope was still in every dream<\/p>\n<p>Hope now is<\/p>\n<p>erased in events and cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>all was as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>the world didn&#8217;t scare me.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t wake me up at night,<\/p>\n<p>it didn&#8217;t cry for my help.<\/p>\n<p>Today I see more darkness<\/p>\n<p>than light.<\/p>\n<p>More coldness than warmth.<\/p>\n<p>More grief, more anger.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago,<\/p>\n<p>I was a shell of who I am today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago, My head floated like a balloon above everything imagining the best. Ten years ago, my body worked better. It has always felt weighed down. But not like today as it holds me prisoner. Ten years ago, Hope was still in every dream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127689","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127871,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127689\/revisions\/127871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}