{"id":133038,"date":"2023-09-02T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133038"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:04:32","slug":"hour-7-i-promise-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-i-promise-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: I Promise Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promise myself, today<\/p>\n<p>I will not cry<\/p>\n<p>My tear soaked pillow can hold no more<\/p>\n<p>My scratchy throat can sob no more<\/p>\n<p>My blood shot eyes can burn no more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I take a deep breath<\/p>\n<p>I promise myself, today<\/p>\n<p>I will not call you<\/p>\n<p>Just to hear your voice<\/p>\n<p>Just to apologize for sins that are not mine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I delete your number<\/p>\n<p>I take a deep breath<\/p>\n<p>I promise myself, today<\/p>\n<p>I will not read your old messages<\/p>\n<p>The ones where you say you love me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I delete the messages<\/p>\n<p>Every last one of them<\/p>\n<p>I take a deep breath<\/p>\n<p>I promise myself, today<\/p>\n<p>I will not put on your old shirt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I pack your shirt away<\/p>\n<p>Along with every tangible memory of you<\/p>\n<p>I put you away<\/p>\n<p>I take a deep breath and<\/p>\n<p>I promise myself today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise myself, today I will not cry My tear soaked pillow can hold no more My scratchy throat can sob no more My blood shot eyes can burn no more &nbsp; I take a deep breath I promise myself, today I will not call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133038","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133188,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133038\/revisions\/133188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}