{"id":129525,"date":"2023-09-02T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129525"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:20:19","slug":"it-wasnt-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/it-wasnt-you\/","title":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the little laugh we shared<br \/>\nlast summer over coffee.<br \/>\nI miss the words<br \/>\nyour eyes whispered to me<br \/>\nI miss how we held hands.<br \/>\nOn the rainy days, our slow dance.<br \/>\nAnd when the nights were stone-cold<br \/>\nyour hands&#8217; warmth atone.<br \/>\nOn thinking,<br \/>\nthe memories aren&#8217;t blithe as they were.<br \/>\nThe summer only burns through my skin,<br \/>\nmy ears have gone deaf over time,<br \/>\nmy hands have gone rough,<br \/>\nrains are dull and slippery,<br \/>\nand nights now, bright and blistering.<\/p>\n<p>I stand where I could never go back.<br \/>\nYou aren&#8217;t cruel, our little memories are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the little laugh we shared last summer over coffee. I miss the words your eyes whispered to me I miss how we held hands. On the rainy days, our slow dance. And when the nights were stone-cold your hands&#8217; warmth atone. On thinking,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772],"class_list":["post-129525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129525","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\/5236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129902,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129525\/revisions\/129902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}