{"id":139043,"date":"2023-09-03T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139043"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:42:32","slug":"hour-seventeen-dear-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-seventeen-dear-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Sixteen: Dear John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear John,<\/p>\n<p>You never said it, but I sense you want to&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>After all, an apology is due.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me for upstaging you,<\/p>\n<p>preempting your magnanimity,<\/p>\n<p>with a sorry reveal: blue for I&#8217;m sorry, baby, please forgive me, and<\/p>\n<p>**********************pink for I was wrong and accept the consequences of my poor choices.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the gender myth alone is reason for humility, a clinging rationale and homage to hormones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Choice, you say, free will, black and white, vote with your feet, let the market decide, and God&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p>One nation under God, ironically, the one you defend (Do Gods need defending?)<\/p>\n<p>would punish my daughters for whom they choose to love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No justifications necessary, you are what&#8217;s been poured into you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on me.<\/p>\n<p>I chose.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, not sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear John, You never said it, but I sense you want to&#8211; After all, an apology is due. Forgive me for upstaging you, preempting your magnanimity, with a sorry reveal: blue for I&#8217;m sorry, baby, please forgive me, and **********************pink for I was wrong and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144362,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139043\/revisions\/144362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}