{"id":3124,"date":"2014-08-23T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2014-08-23T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T00:59:25","slug":"dear-my-younger-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/dear-my-younger-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear My Younger Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, dear, younger self,<br \/>\ndo not fill your days with worry<br \/>\nand your time with Bad Boys&#8217; boozy promises; they lead to broken illusions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear, slightly older self,<br \/>\nenjoy all that you&#8217;ve been given instead of seeing that which you lack.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear, how did I get to be X years old self,<br \/>\nsmile. Laugh. Forget the pain and remember the curiosity, the fun, you new lease on life. Life begins at X.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear, older self,<br \/>\nlearn to be proud of sagacity. Wrinkles are jokes shared. You&#8217;ve just done a whole lot of chuckling.<br \/>\nFind another younger lover to remind you that your tummy is a perfect pillow and not fat at all.<br \/>\nShare your wisdom with those versions of blonde=haired, scared girls who are mimicking your mistakes.<br \/>\nThank your friends and family and start new habits.<br \/>\nKnow that all is going to turn out just fine and fretting never helps.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, dear, dear me. Thanks for always being there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, dear, younger self, do not fill your days with worry and your time with Bad Boys&#8217; boozy promises; they lead to broken illusions. Oh, dear, slightly older self, enjoy all that you&#8217;ve been given instead of seeing that which you lack. Oh, dear, how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}