{"id":36685,"date":"2017-08-05T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36685"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:21:52","slug":"9-its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/9-its-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"9   IT&#8217;S BEEN A WHILE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To breathe<\/p>\n<p>The taste of freedom<\/p>\n<p>from the tentacles that gnawing at the dilapidated heart<\/p>\n<p>To arrest<\/p>\n<p>the tear duct dam<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s spewing, albeit, sporadic tears of sadness<\/p>\n<p>To rejoice<\/p>\n<p>the abrupt stoppage of a dream<\/p>\n<p>that turned out into a continuous nightmare<\/p>\n<p>To reminisce<\/p>\n<p>if the emotional involvement is still there<\/p>\n<p>together with the continuous trouncing<\/p>\n<p>To be liberated<\/p>\n<p>a breathing spree, free at last<\/p>\n<p>no unnecessary force at the tearducts<\/p>\n<p>nightmares no more, with plenty of Care Bear dreams<\/p>\n<p>And most of all, bereft of the emotional chains<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happiness trekking in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s really been a while<\/p>\n<p>Since this feeling of goodness,<\/p>\n<p>oneness in spirit, at tranquility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To breathe The taste of freedom from the tentacles that gnawing at the dilapidated heart To arrest the tear duct dam that&#8217;s spewing, albeit, sporadic tears of sadness To rejoice the abrupt stoppage of a dream that turned out into a continuous nightmare To reminisce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685","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\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37243,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36685\/revisions\/37243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}