{"id":133501,"date":"2023-09-02T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133501"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:28:29","slug":"maybe-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/maybe-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes faith to believe that hope will not disappoint.<br \/>\nTo do a butterfly release in the pit of your stomach<br \/>\nTo entertain the idea that<br \/>\nthis time<br \/>\nLove could choose you.<br \/>\nTo believe that you are now a main character<br \/>\nin a story that you\u2019ve never been written into.<br \/>\nThat this time it\u2019s your turn.<br \/>\nThat what you long for will be made manifest.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping isn\u2019t much and is easy for some, but not for you.<br \/>\nFor you, it is everything that you need<br \/>\nto keep getting up in the morning, and<br \/>\nwhen you lost it, you convinced yourself that gray was the true color of the world.<br \/>\nAnd it has been easier to long for nothing<br \/>\nthan to contend with the despair of disappointment<br \/>\nOver and over again.<br \/>\nIt has been easier to create a new projection for the future<br \/>\nthan to keep trusting with no signs.<br \/>\nWanting has made you weary<br \/>\nand resigned.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems like time to crack open what has been calloused.<br \/>\nTo rewound yourself<br \/>\nif for no other reason than to heal correctly.<br \/>\nDevelop a more pliable wound this time<br \/>\nAnd maybe<br \/>\nJust maybe<br \/>\nhave<br \/>\nwhat you have silently desired for so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes faith to believe that hope will not disappoint. To do a butterfly release in the pit of your stomach To entertain the idea that this time Love could choose you. To believe that you are now a main character in a story that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133501","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\/4411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133515,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133501\/revisions\/133515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}