{"id":25459,"date":"2016-08-13T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25459"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:49:38","slug":"hour-14-twisted-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-14-twisted-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 14 &#8211; Twisted Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Weeds<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Like weeds among the flowers in my yard,<br \/>\nyou sneak inside my soul and block the sun.<br \/>\nI wish at times like this my heart was hard.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when loving you was fun<br \/>\nbut now it feels like leeches at the lake;<br \/>\nthe damage I\u2019m not sure can be undone.<\/p>\n<p>I should have known the tenderness was fake,<br \/>\nlike pink flamingos at my Grandma\u2019s house<br \/>\nor toothpaste icing on a birthday cake.<\/p>\n<p>The spark of passion inside me was doused<br \/>\nand wisdom seems a lousy end reward<br \/>\nfor watching one you thought would be your spouse<\/p>\n<p>prove all your dreams were just a house of cards.<br \/>\nLike weeds among the flowers in my yard.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeds Like weeds among the flowers in my yard, you sneak inside my soul and block the sun. I wish at times like this my heart was hard. There was a time when loving you was fun but now it feels like leeches at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[680,191,299],"class_list":["post-25459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-loss","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459","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\/839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27769,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions\/27769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}