{"id":33734,"date":"2017-08-05T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33734"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:53:08","slug":"the-eyes-that-look-back-from-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-eyes-that-look-back-from-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes that Look Back from the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that are empty include:<br \/>\nhalf of the glass, my pockets,<br \/>\nthis box filled with memories,<br \/>\nthe eyes that look back from the mirror<br \/>\nin the dark.<\/p>\n<p>The eyes that look back from the mirror<br \/>\nonce dazzled by lights, by promise&#8211;<br \/>\nonce fixed on the prize at the Midway.<br \/>\nI gave everything I had without knowing<br \/>\nthe game was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>I gave everything I had without knowing<br \/>\nif love would last, or be returned,<br \/>\nand whether or not heaven was real.<br \/>\nYou keep trying and you keep thinking<br \/>\n&#8220;Maybe next time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You keep trying and you keep thinking<br \/>\na little bit harder, a little bit better,<br \/>\nUntil that one day comes when you stop.<br \/>\nThe glass, the pockets, the memories, the eyes<br \/>\nand the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that are empty include: half of the glass, my pockets, this box filled with memories, the eyes that look back from the mirror in the dark. The eyes that look back from the mirror once dazzled by lights, by promise&#8211; once fixed on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734","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\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33887,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33734\/revisions\/33887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}