{"id":33824,"date":"2017-08-05T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33824"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:20:36","slug":"uprooted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/uprooted\/","title":{"rendered":"Uprooted"},"content":{"rendered":"

the only difference between a <\/span><\/p>\n

weed and a flower is <\/span><\/p>\n

intention. \u00a0flowers that pop up<\/span><\/p>\n

where you did not plan for them<\/span><\/p>\n

are either weeds or volunteers<\/span><\/p>\n

depending on your perception and<\/span><\/p>\n

you never planned on me<\/span><\/p>\n

being here. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

you tore me down but I came back<\/span><\/p>\n

stronger, grew my roots <\/span><\/p>\n

deeper, said I\u2019d bloom bigger<\/span><\/p>\n

next time so you would have<\/span><\/p>\n

no doubt that I belonged here. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I lived on the runoff of your wisdom<\/span><\/p>\n

until you encouraged my growth, but no <\/span><\/p>\n

matter how well-groomed I was, you<\/span><\/p>\n

could not unsee the wildflower<\/span><\/p>\n

in me. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

lately, I\u2019ve been focusing on<\/span><\/p>\n

personal growth. \u00a0going to the<\/span><\/p>\n

gym by myself, eating more<\/span><\/p>\n

vegetables. \u00a0I am not here to prune<\/span><\/p>\n

my overgrowth, this is not about<\/span><\/p>\n

what you can see on the surface. \u00a0I am here <\/span><\/p>\n

to become so strong that no one <\/span><\/p>\n

can ever uproot me<\/span><\/p>\n

again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the only difference between a weed and a flower is intention. \u00a0flowers that pop up where you did not plan for them are either weeds or volunteers depending on your perception and you never planned on me being here.   you tore me down but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33827,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions\/33827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}