{"id":141408,"date":"2023-09-03T05:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141408"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:07:15","slug":"a-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"A Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing swords<br \/>\nMatching each other<br \/>\nBlow for blow<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you fighting or flirting?&#8221;<br \/>\nPhysically unable<br \/>\nTo fight any more<br \/>\nComrades intervene on both sides<br \/>\nThe tussle ending in a draw<\/p>\n<p>Courtly conversation<br \/>\nTurned into a debate<br \/>\nI am right<br \/>\nNo, you are wrong<br \/>\nI am &#8220;difficult&#8221;?<br \/>\nWell, you&#8217;re impossible!<br \/>\nWalking away in a huff<br \/>\nYet another draw<\/p>\n<p>Fighting side by side<br \/>\nBattling enemies<br \/>\nForging bonds<br \/>\nGreater than stubbornness<br \/>\nSeeing each other<br \/>\nIn a different light<br \/>\nRealizing the truth<br \/>\nOf our feelings<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging our differences<br \/>\nRecognizing the difficulties<br \/>\nAnd future clashes to be had<br \/>\nA question asked<br \/>\nA mutual agreement &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; made<br \/>\nKnowing that when it matters<br \/>\nIt will always end<br \/>\nIn a draw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossing swords Matching each other Blow for blow &#8220;Are you fighting or flirting?&#8221; Physically unable To fight any more Comrades intervene on both sides The tussle ending in a draw Courtly conversation Turned into a debate I am right No, you are wrong I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141408","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141542,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141408\/revisions\/141542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}