{"id":18205,"date":"2016-08-13T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18205"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:43:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:43:38","slug":"farewell-ode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/farewell-ode\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Ode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, I couldn&#8217;t wait to get out<br \/>\nNow that the end is near,<br \/>\nCan\u2019t seem to stop the breaking of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>How did I come to love this place?<br \/>\nI never planned for it to happen.<br \/>\nTearing, lost and lonely,<br \/>\nI found solace in this empty space.<\/p>\n<p>As I move far away,<br \/>\nAnd get on with the time.<br \/>\nTrying to make sense,<br \/>\nOf all the questions in my mind\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The hour of farewell has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>I know, you are just a room where I prayed<br \/>\nYou gave me strength during pain.<br \/>\nEmbraced my being and let me stay.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m leaving,<br \/>\nI wonder who will take my place.<\/p>\n<p>If you could speak,<br \/>\nWhat would you say?<br \/>\nWould you cry because I&#8217;m moving away?<br \/>\nWould you stop me in my track?<br \/>\nWould you hold my hand and beg me to stay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, I couldn&#8217;t wait to get out Now that the end is near, Can\u2019t seem to stop the breaking of my heart. How did I come to love this place? I never planned for it to happen. Tearing, lost and lonely, I found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205","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\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19389,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18205\/revisions\/19389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}