{"id":129515,"date":"2023-09-02T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129515"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:08:08","slug":"it-goes-without-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/it-goes-without-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"It Goes Without Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was 38<br \/>\nHe was 49<br \/>\nIt seemed we knew<br \/>\nwhat we were doing<\/p>\n<p>(he&#8217;d done it once before)<\/p>\n<p>no one does<br \/>\nnot fully anyway<br \/>\nhow could anyone<\/p>\n<p>predict the turbulence<br \/>\nthe fraught years<br \/>\nfilled with family drama<\/p>\n<p>age doesn&#8217;t matter<br \/>\ncommitment does<br \/>\nself doesn&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nother does<\/p>\n<p>it has taken a lifetime<br \/>\nto understand what I wish<br \/>\nI&#8217;d known sooner<br \/>\nbut there are<\/p>\n<p>no I do overs<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt Four: write a poem about the topic of marriage, without ever using the word marriage, and while also ideally avoiding the words spouse, husband, and wife.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 38 He was 49 It seemed we knew what we were doing (he&#8217;d done it once before) no one does not fully anyway how could anyone predict the turbulence the fraught years filled with family drama age doesn&#8217;t matter commitment does self doesn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129515","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129648,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129515\/revisions\/129648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}