{"id":3551,"date":"2014-08-23T23:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2014-08-23T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T03:01:24","slug":"a-maddening-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-maddening-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Maddening Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0 &#8220;A Maddening Love&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What can I say?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What may I do for you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Name it, it is yours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For I am no more than a slave,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A tramp, a handmaiden, a lover,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A whore, a bitch, a mother, a friend, and a soul mate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Whatever you want me to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">However, I can no longer stand the slander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Each word uttered tears at my heart,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Rips me to pieces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Realization whips me across the face,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Something is amiss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Memories whiz through my mind,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Too many drugs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Addiction, affliction,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Twisted, tainted,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Slanted, and warped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It dawns on me how utterly hopeless this all is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I am all you said and much more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;A Maddening Love&#8221; What can I say? What may I do for you? Name it, it is yours. For I am no more than a slave, A tramp, a handmaiden, a lover, A whore, a bitch, a mother, a friend, and a soul mate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}