{"id":138212,"date":"2023-09-02T22:54:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138212"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:59:17","slug":"venus-de-milo-prompt-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/venus-de-milo-prompt-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus de Milo (prompt 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I&#8217;m \u2587\u2587\u00a0afraid of being used by others<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nto \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587<br \/>\n\u2587 become better for knowing me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2587\u2587 the leaving that follows<br \/>\n\u2587\u2587 haunts me \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587<br \/>\nthe rejection after I&#8217;ve been drained<br \/>\nof all I had \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I get it<br \/>\nloving \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 enough angst<br \/>\nto build a compelling character<br \/>\nover and over again<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>take \u2587\u2587\u00a0my\u00a0floating ribs<br \/>\n\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 teeth and eyelashes<br \/>\nbreak off pieces of melancholy<br \/>\nslivers of mania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be your \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 Venus de Milo<br \/>\nif you only \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587<br \/>\n\u2587\u00a0worship the empty spaces<br \/>\nof my phantom limbs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m \u2587\u2587\u00a0afraid of being used by others\u00a0 to \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 \u2587 become better for knowing me \u2587\u2587 the leaving that follows \u2587\u2587 haunts me \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 the rejection after I&#8217;ve been drained of all I had \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 I get it loving \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 enough angst to build a&#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-138212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212","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=138212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138463,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212\/revisions\/138463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}