{"id":144857,"date":"2023-09-04T20:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=144857"},"modified":"2023-09-04T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:49:48","slug":"cest-la-vie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/cest-la-vie\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u2019est la Vie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d love to tell you, we did it!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to tell you, we finished.<\/p>\n<p>These past few years, haven\u2019t been quite the same.<\/p>\n<p>These past few years, we hardly get through it.<\/p>\n<p>Am I unfocused?<\/p>\n<p>Did I get distracted?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Pulled in too many directions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard being a mother.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est la vie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard sacrificing your wants.<\/p>\n<p>Your needs.<\/p>\n<p>For another.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est la vie.<\/p>\n<p>This is the life you chose.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t shake the blame.<\/p>\n<p>Now get up and pull yourself together.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to pout.<\/p>\n<p>After-all, there will always be another.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est. La. Vie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Congrats to all who successfully completed the marathon \ud83e\udd70)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d love to tell you, we did it! I\u2019d love to tell you, we finished. These past few years, haven\u2019t been quite the same. These past few years, we hardly get through it. Am I unfocused? Did I get distracted? Yes, I suppose. Pulled in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857","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\/3768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144859,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144857\/revisions\/144859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}