{"id":138452,"date":"2023-09-03T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138452"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:06:45","slug":"12-am-codependency-is-a-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/12-am-codependency-is-a-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"12 AM &#8211; I Identify as a Problem to Protect the Ones I Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on someone,<\/p>\n<p>I simply refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I have,<\/p>\n<p>results in a case of the blues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watching you go through the same,<\/p>\n<p>I long to raise your bar.<\/p>\n<p>You deserve a better hand this game,<\/p>\n<p>one worthy of who you are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I could take the punch and<\/p>\n<p>absorb all the pain,<\/p>\n<p>my rage would crash down,<\/p>\n<p>pelting anyone taking advantage with rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be the hail,<\/p>\n<p>every boom in a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>If it meant they&#8217;d treat you well<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be your shelter from all harm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*** Not finished with this. Will revise later. ***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on someone, I simply refuse. Each time I have, results in a case of the blues. &nbsp; Watching you go through the same, I long to raise your bar. You deserve a better hand this game, one worthy of who you are. &nbsp; If&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138452","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\/4777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138542,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138452\/revisions\/138542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}