{"id":129134,"date":"2023-09-02T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129134"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:19:38","slug":"hour-3-no-it-was-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-3-no-it-was-love\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 3 &#8211; no, it was love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the wasp in my stomach lost her wings<br \/>\non December 28<sup>th<\/sup> in the suburbs of Philadelphia.<br \/>\nwhat was aflutter snapped as the syllables<br \/>\nfell out of me and on to<br \/>\nthe once-white table. yes, it&#8217;s true<br \/>\ni was never suitably grateful<br \/>\nfor the taste of your sweatshirt and<br \/>\nthe scratch of your voice from 3,000 proper miles.<br \/>\nlater, when this haunts me, it won\u2019t be your face,<br \/>\nbut the switchblade sound my heart made<br \/>\nthat burns the blue girl at her gas stove.<br \/>\ntell me that i\u2019m selfish.<br \/>\nagaonidae only live for 48 hours and this wasn\u2019t my first mistake.<br \/>\ni would go back if i was not wingless,<br \/>\nstuck forever in living amber,<br \/>\nsurviving on sequential cups of espresso and absinthe.<br \/>\ni would rechrysalize in new time<br \/>\nand fail to torment you, entirely.<br \/>\nmake no mistake, i was the mistake.<br \/>\nplease hold that<br \/>\nwith you when you never think of me,<br \/>\nwith you when i realize, i won\u2019t have flight again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the wasp in my stomach lost her wings on December 28th in the suburbs of Philadelphia. what was aflutter snapped as the syllables fell out of me and on to the once-white table. yes, it&#8217;s true i was never suitably grateful for the taste of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129134","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\/5315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144709,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129134\/revisions\/144709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}