{"id":19669,"date":"2016-08-13T12:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19669"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:26:21","slug":"beyond-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/beyond-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She never knew a mother.<br \/>\nShe heard of love&#8230;<br \/>\nFrom some customers&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the heat of their passion.<br \/>\nShe felt none.<br \/>\nThen he came to her.<br \/>\nHe only spoke with her.<br \/>\nHe wanted to save her.<br \/>\nHe tried, she was changing&#8230;<br \/>\nHer freedom was in death.<\/p>\n<p>Step #2:<\/p>\n<p>She never knew a mother.<br \/>\nThough many women were around.<br \/>\nShe heard of love&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd never saw it.<br \/>\nFrom some customers&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the heat of their passion.<br \/>\nShe felt none.<br \/>\n<strong>She was beyond tears&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nBeyond emotions seen in others.<br \/>\nCustomers cried, laughed, yelled&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd called her ugly names.<br \/>\nThen he came to her.<br \/>\nHe only spoke with her.<br \/>\nAnd called her beautiful, important!<br \/>\nHe said her name, with kindness.<br \/>\nHe wanted to save her.<br \/>\nHe tried, she was changing&#8230;<br \/>\nShe was understanding what love was&#8230;<br \/>\nSome sort of feeling about to be born.<br \/>\nHer freedom was in death.<\/p>\n<p>Step #3:<\/p>\n<p>She never knew a mother.<br \/>\nShe heard of love&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd never saw it.<br \/>\nShe felt none.<br \/>\n<strong>She was beyond tears&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nBeyond emotions seen in others.<br \/>\nAnd called her ugly names.<br \/>\nThen he came to her.<br \/>\nHe said her name, with kindness.<br \/>\nHe wanted to save her.<br \/>\nShe was understanding what love was&#8230;<br \/>\nHer freedom was in death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She never knew a mother. She heard of love&#8230; From some customers&#8230; In the heat of their passion. She felt none. Then he came to her. He only spoke with her. He wanted to save her. He tried, she was changing&#8230; Her freedom was in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[293,31,1419,565],"class_list":["post-19669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-kindness","tag-love","tag-names","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669","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\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19823,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19669\/revisions\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}