{"id":128067,"date":"2023-09-02T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128067"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:28:29","slug":"second-chance-hour-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/second-chance-hour-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Chance, Hour Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Chance<\/p>\n<p>I am unbound, at last,<br \/>\nfreedom found in tying<br \/>\nmy lifeline to another,<br \/>\na worthy partner in crime,<br \/>\nlaughing into the night<br \/>\nhand in hand.<\/p>\n<p>We wink at one another,<br \/>\nsimpatico,<br \/>\nwondering at the lost<br \/>\nand broken strewn along<br \/>\nour path, wandering<br \/>\nthe no longer lonely road,<br \/>\nside by side.<\/p>\n<p>Past partners are shed<br \/>\nsnake skins, retaining<br \/>\ntheir fearsome forms,<br \/>\nbut hollow within,<br \/>\nall venom spent<br \/>\nagainst past selves, and we heal,<br \/>\nbit by bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Chance I am unbound, at last, freedom found in tying my lifeline to another, a worthy partner in crime, laughing into the night hand in hand. We wink at one another, simpatico, wondering at the lost and broken strewn along our path, wandering the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128067","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128174,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128067\/revisions\/128174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}