{"id":32829,"date":"2017-08-05T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32829"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:22:30","slug":"a-battered-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-battered-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A battered life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I stand in resistance\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to the forces that would change me.<\/p>\n<p>Taking blows from all sides,<\/p>\n<p>my weathering shows.<\/p>\n<p>I am dwarfed by the mountains<\/p>\n<p>that surround my fractured soul.<\/p>\n<p>Peeking out from dispair<\/p>\n<p>trying to fill the hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty in the eyes of some<\/p>\n<p>though they can see I&#8217;m weary.<\/p>\n<p>The blustering wind is my company<\/p>\n<p>through the tormented years.<\/p>\n<p>A change is coming<\/p>\n<p>now that you see me.<\/p>\n<p>I have captured your eye<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;m yours for the saving.<\/p>\n<p>I am sturdy and strong<\/p>\n<p>with room inside for love.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin the healing<\/p>\n<p>a gift has spared me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in resistance\u00a0 to the forces that would change me. Taking blows from all sides, my weathering shows. I am dwarfed by the mountains that surround my fractured soul. Peeking out from dispair trying to fill the hollow. Beauty in the eyes of some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32829","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\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32945,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32829\/revisions\/32945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}