{"id":19244,"date":"2016-08-13T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19244"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:45:38","slug":"the-second-hour-forgive-me-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-second-hour-forgive-me-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Hour: Forgive Me, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me, love.<\/p>\n<p>I feel\u00a0you pacing, your feet\u00a0wearing a path back to the past<\/p>\n<p>Only to have the present creep in with each dawn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, love.<\/p>\n<p>I hear the little hiccup-sobs you try to hide in the folds of your pillow<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away with all the other tear stains you won&#8217;t let me wipe away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, love.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the lines of your body stretched rope-taunt with anger.<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s fear too, but you won&#8217;t admit that, even to yourself, and certainly not to me.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, love,<\/p>\n<p>For burning bridges instead of building them.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the vast gulf of our silences, how can a hand-span seem so far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me, love. I feel\u00a0you pacing, your feet\u00a0wearing a path back to the past Only to have the present creep in with each dawn. &nbsp; Forgive me, love. I hear the little hiccup-sobs you try to hide in the folds of your pillow Tucked away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1371,31],"class_list":["post-19244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-forgive-me","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244","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\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}