{"id":133958,"date":"2023-09-02T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133958"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:29:55","slug":"hour-4-till-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-4-till-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: Till Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend plays the organ<\/p>\n<p>A sad and somber song<\/p>\n<p>The crowd, all dressed in black,<\/p>\n<p>Just trying to be strong<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I straighten up my Windsor knot<\/p>\n<p>And stare at my reflection<\/p>\n<p>Try one last time to cover<\/p>\n<p>Every little imperfection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sneak a peak into the church<\/p>\n<p>My freezing feet call me a fraud<\/p>\n<p>The crowd begins to stand and cry<\/p>\n<p>The Wedding March plays on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I close my eyes, take one deep breath,<\/p>\n<p>And then I turn the corner<\/p>\n<p>Slowly walking down the aisle<\/p>\n<p>I pass by all the mourners<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t want to be here<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t want to come<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t want to see us<\/p>\n<p>Two becoming one<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me, in my suit and tie<\/p>\n<p>Darkness as my bride<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say till death do us part<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ve already died inside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend plays the organ A sad and somber song The crowd, all dressed in black, Just trying to be strong &nbsp; I straighten up my Windsor knot And stare at my reflection Try one last time to cover Every little imperfection &nbsp; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133958","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\/4616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134337,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133958\/revisions\/134337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}