{"id":26943,"date":"2016-08-14T02:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26943"},"modified":"2016-08-18T23:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:10:29","slug":"indelicate-deflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/indelicate-deflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Indelicate deflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first heart I ever broke<\/p>\n<p>was my own<\/p>\n<p>you could call it a ricochet<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll go with stupid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>though immature is a<\/p>\n<p>reasonable copout when I<\/p>\n<p>am feeling self-charitable<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>at nineteen, we were<\/p>\n<p>in love \u2013 not lust<\/p>\n<p>well defined lines obeyed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then one night she told me<\/p>\n<p>a family secret<\/p>\n<p>I should\u2019ve rolled with<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lost her because<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t know any better<\/p>\n<p>didn\u2019t know much of anything<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>could I have done better?<\/p>\n<p>She left, I stayed. Should I have<\/p>\n<p>followed? There were days\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mutual friends said she<\/p>\n<p>thought I could take the truth<\/p>\n<p>why I didn\u2019t remains a mystery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She broke my heart, as I hers<\/p>\n<p>collateral damage<\/p>\n<p>of unintended refraction<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a9 \u00a02016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first heart I ever broke was my own you could call it a ricochet I\u2019ll go with stupid &nbsp; though immature is a reasonable copout when I am feeling self-charitable &nbsp; at nineteen, we were in love \u2013 not lust well defined lines obeyed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[1992,835,479,997,2112,1577,31,2113,1046,2109,2111,504],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-first-broken-heart","tag-first-love","tag-heartbreak","tag-hour-17-prompt","tag-looking-back","tag-lost-loves","tag-love","tag-love-lost","tag-prompt-17","tag-remembering","tag-renewal","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26969,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions\/26969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}