{"id":22815,"date":"2016-08-13T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22815"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:21:19","slug":"goodbyes-and-other-words-half-marathon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/goodbyes-and-other-words-half-marathon-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbyes and Other Words (half marathon #9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never liked goodbyes.<\/p>\n<p>They are not a forever sentence<\/p>\n<p>Nor are they a guarantee of a final meeting,<\/p>\n<p>But they do hold those possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The entire word is about possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>We say goodbye because<\/p>\n<p>Life is short<\/p>\n<p>Life is unpredictable<\/p>\n<p>Life can eliminate things<\/p>\n<p>Without warning.<\/p>\n<p>We say goodbye because<\/p>\n<p>We have learned to expect<\/p>\n<p>Every possibility.<\/p>\n<p>But the last thing that we should say<\/p>\n<p>To one another<\/p>\n<p>Should not be<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>We need to tell people<\/p>\n<p>How we feel about them.<\/p>\n<p>We need to use our words<\/p>\n<p>To express<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude,<\/p>\n<p>And strength.<\/p>\n<p>Word are our universal power,<\/p>\n<p>And like goodbyes,<\/p>\n<p>They possess endless possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never liked goodbyes. They are not a forever sentence Nor are they a guarantee of a final meeting, But they do hold those possibilities. The entire word is about possibilities. We say goodbye because Life is short Life is unpredictable Life can eliminate things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815","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\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22902,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions\/22902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}