{"id":1818,"date":"2014-08-23T12:31:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2014-08-23T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:31:53","slug":"beech-mountain-wasnt-meant-for-me-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/beech-mountain-wasnt-meant-for-me-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Beech Mountain Wasn&#8217;t Meant for Me: Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">My dream was to move to North Carolina some day;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Lucky for me, in Texas I did stay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It finally became clear our paths would intervene;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Mine and the boy who had lived down the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">His boots he wears with pride, this Texan love of mine;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Though I still would like to see Beech Mountain, staying here is fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The lantern of love took 30 years to light;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I asked him one day if he knew why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He looked above the piano at the pictures of my three kids;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;So they could be&#8221; he proudly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dream was to move to North Carolina some day; Lucky for me, in Texas I did stay. It finally became clear our paths would intervene; Mine and the boy who had lived down the street. His boots he wears with pride, this Texan love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}