{"id":13227,"date":"2015-06-14T04:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2015-06-14T04:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T08:26:24","slug":"falling-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/falling-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How interesting to find<br \/>\nthat your final rejection should<br \/>\nbring such relief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>black strands of needy fatness<br \/>\nfalling away from me like rain;<br \/>\nwith none of the resistance I expected.<\/p>\n<p>How interesting to learn<br \/>\nthat the knowing of you was my pain \u2013<br \/>\nand not the loss I feared, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Those words I had always dreaded:<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want you.\u201d<br \/>\nwere so splendid when they came,<br \/>\nthat my world turned quietly sideways<br \/>\nand I caught the view of a love to be lived.<\/p>\n<p>Forever freed from the immensity of your shadow<br \/>\nand the hurt you wheel squeakily behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How interesting to find that your final rejection should bring such relief&#8230; black strands of needy fatness falling away from me like rain; with none of the resistance I expected. How interesting to learn that the knowing of you was my pain \u2013 and not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13251,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/revisions\/13251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}