{"id":25275,"date":"2016-08-14T09:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25275"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:16","slug":"standing-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/standing-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this life, I\u2019d rather stand alone<br \/>\nThan next to people that hide<br \/>\nIn the shadow of their insecurity<br \/>\nMy heart is true and beliefs strong<br \/>\nI\u2019ve a strong sense of wrong and right<br \/>\nBut, if acting on my beliefs<br \/>\nMeans I must stand alone, so be it<br \/>\nComplaining, whining and not acting<br \/>\nThis changes nothing<br \/>\nActions speak louder than words<br \/>\nBy acting on my beliefs, I know<br \/>\nChange can and often does occur<br \/>\nIs it brave to stand alone \u2013 sure<br \/>\nBut, I would do it each and every time<br \/>\nRegardless of the friends it may cost me<br \/>\nIn the long run, I\u2019ll rest well at night<br \/>\nMy heart will know peace<br \/>\nNothing else matters besides that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this life, I\u2019d rather stand alone Than next to people that hide In the shadow of their insecurity My heart is true and beliefs strong I\u2019ve a strong sense of wrong and right But, if acting on my beliefs Means I must stand alone,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,1157],"class_list":["post-25275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25282,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions\/25282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}