{"id":27737,"date":"2016-08-14T05:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27737"},"modified":"2016-08-15T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T02:02:26","slug":"letter-written-from-the-edge-of-delirium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/letter-written-from-the-edge-of-delirium\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Written From the Edge of Delirium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 1986 Self,<br \/>\nI was once told I had a bright future,<br \/>\nBut I never bought the shades<br \/>\nor learned to read the map,<br \/>\nso losing my way has been the least of my worries.<br \/>\nThough your effort noble,<br \/>\nthe dissipation of faith<br \/>\nin (of all things) humanity renders<br \/>\nit useless. Hope abandoned me, and I am left to face the wolves alone. A fitting end to modern<br \/>\nstruggles. May you find solace<br \/>\nin my status as a lost cause,<br \/>\nkeeping guilt at bay<br \/>\nand your purpose true.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear 1986 Self, I was once told I had a bright future, But I never bought the shades or learned to read the map, so losing my way has been the least of my worries. Though your effort noble, the dissipation of faith in (of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1136,441],"tags":[680,23,326,410,391,1157,192],"class_list":["post-27737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-life","tag-marathon","tag-memories","tag-poet","tag-poetrymarathon2016","tag-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737","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\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27737\/revisions\/29407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}