{"id":128396,"date":"2023-09-02T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128396"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:45:34","slug":"10-years-ago-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/10-years-ago-2\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 years ago\u2026 where even was I 10 years ago?<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I remember now<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Finally crawling out of my ghost form<\/span><\/p>\n

that I had taken on to keep myself safe<\/span><\/p>\n

and free of any attachments<\/span><\/p>\n

lest I had to flee again<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Not like the reason I fled three years prior was about to happen again<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Children change everything<\/span><\/p>\n

no matter if they stay with you<\/span><\/p>\n

or don\u2019t<\/span><\/p>\n

and I was still getting used to<\/span><\/p>\n

my heart living in another city<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I thought if I never get attached<\/span><\/p>\n

to anyone again<\/span><\/p>\n

I would never be in a predicament<\/span><\/p>\n

to have to give up my heart again<\/span><\/p>\n

and watch it leave<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But of course, I was wrong<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The kids who work for me<\/span><\/p>\n

have become my kids<\/span><\/p>\n

and I will counsel, protect, and defend them<\/span><\/p>\n

teach and hopefully guide them<\/span><\/p>\n

before I watch them walk away<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easier now though<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My son is now 13 instead of 3<\/span><\/p>\n

my kids keep in touch and sometimes return to me<\/span><\/p>\n

my friends keep me from being a ghost<\/span><\/p>\n

this town has come a home to me<\/span><\/p>\n

and I am happier now<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 years ago\u2026 where even was I 10 years ago? Oh.   I remember now   Finally crawling out of my ghost form that I had taken on to keep myself safe and free of any attachments lest I had to flee again   Not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[1512,753,31,398,401],"class_list":["post-128396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-kids","tag-history","tag-love","tag-past","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128396","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128418,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128396\/revisions\/128418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}