{"id":21629,"date":"2016-08-13T15:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21629"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:55:13","slug":"vi-my-unchangeable-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/vi-my-unchangeable-past\/","title":{"rendered":"VI.  My Unchangeable Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to say I shudder<br \/>\nWhen I look at the past,<br \/>\nbut I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I did the best I could<br \/>\nWith what I had,<br \/>\nso too bad<\/p>\n<p>If I wasn&#8217;t good enough.<br \/>\nMaybe you weren&#8217;t<br \/>\ngood enough, either.<\/p>\n<p>After my grandmother died,<br \/>\nI spent two years<br \/>\ntrying to get back to her.<\/p>\n<p>In her presence,<br \/>\nI had no past,<br \/>\nI had no sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Only with her<br \/>\nWas I ever<br \/>\ngood\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to say I shudder When I look at the past, but I don&#8217;t. I did the best I could With what I had, so too bad If I wasn&#8217;t good enough. Maybe you weren&#8217;t good enough, either. After my grandmother died, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629","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\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22037,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21629\/revisions\/22037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}