{"id":19788,"date":"2016-08-13T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:44:05","slug":"the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the day before<\/p>\n<p>That email from you<\/p>\n<p>SHIFTED<\/p>\n<p>What is important to me<\/p>\n<p>To what is important to you.<\/p>\n<p><del><em>I can see it in your face!<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><em>I can hear it in the words you use:<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><em>Poweless; helpless; hopeless; disgraced.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p>Unsolicited ranting<\/p>\n<p><del><em>Viewing yourself through distorted perceptions.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><em>Blaming others for your hurt.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p>Downshifts my mood<\/p>\n<p><del><em>This happens every time there is a break &#8211; don&#8217;t you see that?<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><em>I know I&#8217;m emotional. \u00a0That&#8217;s not the point!<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><del><em>I need someone else to say it for me and to have my back.<\/em><\/del><\/p>\n<p><em>Dramatic ultimatums<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When your circular thinking<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m a victim; I&#8217;m not!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Becomes my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Or maybe the day before That email from you SHIFTED What is important to me To what is important to you. I can see it in your face! I can hear it in the words you use: Poweless; helpless; hopeless; disgraced. Unsolicited ranting Viewing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[553,1157],"class_list":["post-19788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour-4-prompt","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19990,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788\/revisions\/19990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}