{"id":136367,"date":"2023-09-02T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136367"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:39:29","slug":"doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doors close<br \/>\nSometimes it feels like it\u2019s too soon<br \/>\nLike it\u2019s not exactly<br \/>\nTime to move on<br \/>\nTo move forward<\/p>\n<p>We force doors open<br \/>\nPrying them open with our fingernails<br \/>\nPressing into them with our backs<br \/>\nAnd our feet planted on the walls<br \/>\nAnything we can to have our way<\/p>\n<p>Hubris leaves doors open that ought to be closed<br \/>\nDoors with weak hinges<br \/>\nThat have rusted and creaked<br \/>\nDoors that should be demolished and left alone<\/p>\n<p>But every door leads to a world of possibilities<br \/>\nChoose your own adventure<br \/>\nAnd see what each has to offer<br \/>\nYou never have to stay on<br \/>\nOne road<br \/>\nOne path<br \/>\nOne future<br \/>\nIt\u2019s never too late<br \/>\nTo make a new choice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doors close Sometimes it feels like it\u2019s too soon Like it\u2019s not exactly Time to move on To move forward We force doors open Prying them open with our fingernails Pressing into them with our backs And our feet planted on the walls Anything we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6132],"class_list":["post-136367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023hour12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137004,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367\/revisions\/137004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}