{"id":18099,"date":"2016-08-13T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:52:54","slug":"the-wisdom-of-a-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-wisdom-of-a-daisy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of a Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He loves me<br \/>\nHe loves me not<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as simple<br \/>\nand as complicated<br \/>\nas that<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning<br \/>\nhe loved me<br \/>\nat least he said that he did<\/p>\n<p>Something told me no<br \/>\nbut I said Yes<br \/>\nand let him sweep me off my feet<\/p>\n<p>Caught in the whirlwind<br \/>\nNo way to step back<br \/>\nInstead I got deeper in<\/p>\n<p>A baby<br \/>\nThen two<br \/>\nWe were happy for a while<\/p>\n<p>But disappointments piled up<br \/>\nResentment started to grow<br \/>\nI began to wonder why I hadn&#8217;t said No<\/p>\n<p>What I thought was love<br \/>\nwas his need to control<br \/>\nThe more I pulled away<br \/>\nthe more he fought to keep his hold<\/p>\n<p>But cruelty is not love<br \/>\nAnd fear won&#8217;t keep me near<br \/>\nAll the petals are on the floor now<br \/>\nAnd the answer is clear<\/p>\n<p>He loves me not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He loves me He loves me not It&#8217;s as simple and as complicated as that In the beginning he loved me at least he said that he did Something told me no but I said Yes and let him sweep me off my feet Caught&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":881,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099","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\/881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18112,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions\/18112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}