{"id":134886,"date":"2023-09-02T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134886"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:42:43","slug":"what-is-love-it-isnt-this-prompt-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/what-is-love-it-isnt-this-prompt-10\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Love? (It Isn&#8217;t This) (prompt 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>love watched as I climbed trees<br \/>\nwrote me a book of poetry<br \/>\n(that called me a whore<br \/>\nand compared me to my mother)<\/p>\n<p>love had a British accent<br \/>\ntook photos of me all the time<br \/>\n(especially after he&#8217;d made me cry<br \/>\nhe said I was &#8220;still&#8221; beautiful)<\/p>\n<p>love drove me through the desert<br \/>\nbought me trinkets from a gift shop<br \/>\n(then threatened he would hurt himself<br \/>\nand it would be my fault)<\/p>\n<p>love was passionately intimate<br \/>\nstayed up all night with me<br \/>\n(when I wanted to be alone<br \/>\nand blamed me for his lack of sleep)<\/p>\n<p>love wanted to know everything<br \/>\nand everyone I kept around<br \/>\n(this he proved by going through my things<br \/>\nwhile I was out of town)<\/p>\n<p>love sought to save me from myself<br \/>\ntold me to get the proper help<br \/>\n(then stopped going to therapy<br \/>\nand started taking pills himself)<\/p>\n<p>love held me tightly to him<br \/>\nsaid he would never let me go<br \/>\n(because I didn&#8217;t know how to function<br \/>\noutside of his control)<\/p>\n<p>love had exactly what I wanted<br \/>\nwhat I looked for in a man<br \/>\n(before I learned that healthy love<br \/>\nwould never look like him)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>love watched as I climbed trees wrote me a book of poetry (that called me a whore and compared me to my mother) love had a British accent took photos of me all the time (especially after he&#8217;d made me cry he said I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134886","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135389,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134886\/revisions\/135389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}