{"id":22740,"date":"2016-08-13T18:21:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22740"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:14","slug":"10-i-dont-want-to-be-left-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/10-i-dont-want-to-be-left-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"10     I Don&#8217;t Want To Be Left Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>with my Thoughts (why? where would this lead? what matters most? who could it be so? how to undo what&#8217;s been done?)<\/li>\n<li>with my Memories (faded pics, inanimate objects, old posts, events, places)<\/li>\n<li>in a One&#8217;s wake (who&#8217;s that? that&#8217;s not possible&#8230;unchartered prayers, hi, hello, goodbye? do i know you?)<\/li>\n<li>on Halloween nights (creepy noises, creaking doors, dogs a-howling, flickering lights and candles, intermittent power supply, horror TV flicks)<\/li>\n<li>or for that matter&#8230; Special Occasions (Christmas eve, birthday eve, birthday itself, New Year&#8217;s eve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But wait, you need to enjoy your own company sometimes<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah<\/p>\n<p>I could laugh without being branded a mental case<\/p>\n<p>I could discard nuisance things, old and new<\/p>\n<p>I could attend wake at my own pace, like after the interment, probably?<\/p>\n<p>I could ignore those unwarranted spine-tingling, hair-raising scenarios, switch channels or just turn the TV off?<\/p>\n<p>I could, of course, I could<\/p>\n<p>If talking to myself and arguing at that is a worse case of dreadfulness?<\/p>\n<p>I could be left alone then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with my Thoughts (why? where would this lead? what matters most? who could it be so? how to undo what&#8217;s been done?) with my Memories (faded pics, inanimate objects, old posts, events, places) in a One&#8217;s wake (who&#8217;s that? that&#8217;s not possible&#8230;unchartered prayers, hi, hello,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740","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\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23491,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions\/23491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}