{"id":3305,"date":"2014-08-23T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T01:15:04","slug":"silence-golden-or-stifling-or-a-modern-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/silence-golden-or-stifling-or-a-modern-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence: golden or stifling? or a modern blend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasting old memories is sometimes bitter.<br \/>\nToday it is absolutely delicious.<br \/>\nAn anticipated ice cream cone that melts quickly in a hot, carefree summer day.<br \/>\nMy mouth waters, especially by that hole where the wisdom tooth used to inhabit.<br \/>\n<em>Is my soul that starved?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Smelling a change.<br \/>\nSniff.<br \/>\nJust a few days before the tears would not stop.<br \/>\n<em>Can he be trusted?<\/em><br \/>\nI debate and settle on a definite maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing my friends talk of their current loves makes me smile and drift<br \/>\nalong proverbial memory lane, sidestepping a few potholes along the way.<br \/>\n<em>Where did I put my rose-colored glasses?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I touch the side where he used to be.<br \/>\nI can sniff his cologne if I burrow in his tattered t-shirt.<br \/>\nThe one I wanted him to discard.<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m the one who can&#8217;t toss it.<br \/>\nOr the related memories.<br \/>\nI miss him so much.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will I ever get over dangerous habits?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasting old memories is sometimes bitter. Today it is absolutely delicious. An anticipated ice cream cone that melts quickly in a hot, carefree summer day. My mouth waters, especially by that hole where the wisdom tooth used to inhabit. Is my soul that starved? Smelling&#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-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}