{"id":37895,"date":"2017-08-05T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37895"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:33:46","slug":"6-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/6-10\/","title":{"rendered":"6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest things to say<br \/>\nare I love you, forgive me, and help me<br \/>\nin ascending order.<br \/>\nWe refrain from those words,<br \/>\ntheir combinations,<br \/>\nthe vulnerability they provide.<br \/>\nThe damage they cause<br \/>\nto our fragile &#8220;selves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Regrets among the living<br \/>\nto be carried into the world<br \/>\nof the after. By those who remain.<br \/>\nThrough prayers and hopes,<br \/>\nthe dreams and the notes,<br \/>\nthe words spoken to the invisible listener.<br \/>\nThe words audible only to ourselves.<br \/>\nThe words that were locked,<br \/>\nthe ones that were painful,<br \/>\ncome out so easily,<br \/>\nwhen the addressee can no longer hear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I only did the 60 seconds and 90 seconds bits, but still marking it as prompt response.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardest things to say are I love you, forgive me, and help me in ascending order. We refrain from those words, their combinations, the vulnerability they provide. The damage they cause to our fragile &#8220;selves&#8221;. Regrets among the living to be carried into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37895","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37971,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37895\/revisions\/37971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}