{"id":130687,"date":"2023-09-02T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130687"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:15:58","slug":"hour-5-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-5-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; The House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to go.<\/p>\n<p>The past lay hidden in the walls.<\/p>\n<p>All other memories have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can hear the echoes of our history,<\/p>\n<p>They speak to me and beg me to stay.<\/p>\n<p>But I must move on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These walls sheltered me and kept me safe.<\/p>\n<p>They hold my secrets and whispered fears.<\/p>\n<p>But they won\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My life began within these walls,<\/p>\n<p>And it was here that others\u2019 lives ended.<\/p>\n<p>But still, they remain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve grown and these walls began to press in on me.<\/p>\n<p>Secrets from others threaten to overwhelm me.<\/p>\n<p>But they will not defeat me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is time to go.<\/p>\n<p>My future waits in a new place,<\/p>\n<p>A place where fresh memories will be stored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Diana Kristine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time to go. The past lay hidden in the walls. All other memories have been removed. &nbsp; I can hear the echoes of our history, They speak to me and beg me to stay. But I must move on. &nbsp; These walls sheltered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5926],"class_list":["post-130687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023-hour-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687","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\/983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130696,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130687\/revisions\/130696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}