{"id":143941,"date":"2023-09-03T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143941"},"modified":"2023-09-03T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:00:11","slug":"for-aphrodite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/for-aphrodite\/","title":{"rendered":"For Aphrodite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Aphrodite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a long time<\/p>\n<p>I was afraid<\/p>\n<p>to open my heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too long have I kept close<\/p>\n<p>and built up a wall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You showed me it\u2019s ok<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s ok to let out your emotions.<\/p>\n<p>That I am in a safe place<\/p>\n<p>to just be me again,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You let me pour out<\/p>\n<p>my every burden to you<\/p>\n<p>and you took those burdens to Ares.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In turn he sliced them<\/p>\n<p>and gave me strength.<\/p>\n<p>You said, \u201cyou\u2019re only human.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s ok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You were there to wipe the tears<\/p>\n<p>and help me stand back up.<\/p>\n<p>To help me find my inner strength again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For that Lady Aphrodite I thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Aphrodite For a long time I was afraid to open my heart. &nbsp; Too long have I kept close and built up a wall. &nbsp; You showed me it\u2019s ok it\u2019s ok to let out your emotions. That I am in a safe place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143941","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143956,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143941\/revisions\/143956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}