{"id":18039,"date":"2016-08-13T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18039"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:48:57","slug":"the-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our hearts divide which once were one and true<br \/>\nAs love, a candle, flickers into black<br \/>\nWhat once was us has become me and you<br \/>\nOur paths diverge there is no turning back<br \/>\nYou were a flower radiant and light<br \/>\nThe ground beneath you shaping every thought<br \/>\nYet simple tasks became a daily fight<br \/>\nI tried, but cannot love you as I ought<br \/>\nI took you from the soil in which you stayed<br \/>\nTo have you as my own to keep and hold<br \/>\nBut in the vase your love began to fade<br \/>\nThe ground you knew was changed for waters cold<br \/>\nYou change as now I slowly apprehend<br \/>\nTo pluck a flower is to make it\u2019s end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our hearts divide which once were one and true As love, a candle, flickers into black What once was us has become me and you Our paths diverge there is no turning back You were a flower radiant and light The ground beneath you shaping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18069,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18039\/revisions\/18069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}