{"id":142986,"date":"2023-09-03T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142986"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:36:57","slug":"true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She walked toward me<br \/>\nup a dark staircase,<br \/>\nas I put away boxes<br \/>\nof too many things to own.<\/p>\n<p>I saw her dark hair in my periphery<br \/>\nwearing a blue skirt,<br \/>\nwhite shirt, short sleeve,<br \/>\nand a vest of Aztec design.<\/p>\n<p>She was tall and thin,<br \/>\nlike Sharon, the woman<br \/>\nin the room down the hall<br \/>\nwho hated me for eating meat.<\/p>\n<p>Strange bird, Sharon \u2013<br \/>\nGray with two faces.<br \/>\nStill, I tried, as I always do<br \/>\nto change her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just as I was about to say<br \/>\n\u201cSharon, you changed your hair!\u201d<br \/>\nshe disappeared. Yes, just vanished<br \/>\ninto thin air.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t Sharon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She walked toward me up a dark staircase, as I put away boxes of too many things to own. I saw her dark hair in my periphery wearing a blue skirt, white shirt, short sleeve, and a vest of Aztec design. She was tall and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1575],"class_list":["post-142986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-ghosts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142986","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143018,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142986\/revisions\/143018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}