{"id":18709,"date":"2016-08-13T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18709"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:54:27","slug":"poem-1-tension-in-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-1-tension-in-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 1&#8211; Tension in a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I write many days,<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelmed with thoughts,<\/p>\n<p>Spilling out secrets too big for paper,<\/p>\n<p>Crying out pain never spoken to close loves.<\/p>\n<p>I dare not lie from my mouth,<\/p>\n<p>Yet my pen understands my exaggerating cries.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day,<\/p>\n<p>An awesome challenge falls in my lap,<\/p>\n<p>Waiting to held,<\/p>\n<p>Overflowing with opportunity,<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I wake up surprised,<\/p>\n<p>Realizing I was dreaming,<\/p>\n<p>It all felt real,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The dream was so exciting,<\/p>\n<p>It all happened while I slept.<\/p>\n<p>I reached for my pen,<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly nothing,<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely nothing comes out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhhh&#8230;OMG!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All this tension over a damn poem!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write many days, Overwhelmed with thoughts, Spilling out secrets too big for paper, Crying out pain never spoken to close loves. I dare not lie from my mouth, Yet my pen understands my exaggerating cries. Then one day, An awesome challenge falls in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709","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\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18791,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions\/18791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}