{"id":24127,"date":"2016-08-13T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24127"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:39:24","slug":"selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I left you.<br \/>\nBoth of us, angry, frustrated.<br \/>\nNeither of us at fault.<\/p>\n<p>I went away to college.<br \/>\nYou stayed.<br \/>\nYou stayed.<\/p>\n<p>Four years with few words.<br \/>\nThen six more with fewer.<br \/>\nStill more years.<\/p>\n<p>You understood why.<br \/>\nYou were unselfish.<br \/>\nI was not.<\/p>\n<p>One day I called you.<br \/>\nYour tone of voice: shattered.<br \/>\nI listened intently.<\/p>\n<p>We reconnected.<br \/>\nHad lunch.<br \/>\nLaughed.<\/p>\n<p>We traveled overseas together,<br \/>\nDuring winter.<br \/>\nRe-connected.<\/p>\n<p>You returned home.<br \/>\nFell ill &#8212; again.<br \/>\nPassed on.<\/p>\n<p>Still on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I left you. Both of us, angry, frustrated. Neither of us at fault. I went away to college. You stayed. You stayed. Four years with few words. Then six more with fewer. Still more years. You understood why. You were unselfish. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24750,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions\/24750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}