{"id":32559,"date":"2017-08-05T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32559"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:34:10","slug":"32559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/32559\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 32559 (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected<br \/>\nTerror fills me<br \/>\nAs I think of the shame<br \/>\nHow do I even explain?<br \/>\nI hardly understand it myself<\/p>\n<p>The time comes<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s painful<br \/>\nBut to my surprise<br \/>\nEnds quickly<br \/>\nThe result of my labor<br \/>\nRushed away<\/p>\n<p>Time ticks on<br \/>\nFriends and family visit<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t told them and yet<br \/>\nThere is something in their eyes<br \/>\nA secret of their own<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been too long<br \/>\nThey tell me everything is fine<br \/>\nBut I know it&#8217;s not<br \/>\nWhere is she?<br \/>\nI have to see her<br \/>\nI have to hold her<\/p>\n<p>No one will talk to me<br \/>\nThey act like nothing is happening<br \/>\nBut their faces betray them<br \/>\nI prepare to interrogate them<\/p>\n<p>Jolting awake<br \/>\nA moment, and then clarity<br \/>\nJust a dream<br \/>\nYet there is an aching in my chest<br \/>\nA longing for her<br \/>\nShe who is nothing more<br \/>\nThan a hope and a dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unexpected Terror fills me As I think of the shame How do I even explain? I hardly understand it myself The time comes It&#8217;s painful But to my surprise Ends quickly The result of my labor Rushed away Time ticks on Friends and family visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32559","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89721,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32559\/revisions\/89721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}