{"id":3856,"date":"2014-08-24T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2014-08-24T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T22:47:39","slug":"hour-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/hour-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** Decisions **<\/p>\n<p>As she climbs the hill to the top of the opening of the walk way underneath her feet.<br \/>\nShe sits.<br \/>\nDangling legs.<br \/>\nHeart sinks.<br \/>\nTears rolling down her face.<br \/>\nWondering why.<br \/>\nWhy he had to leave.<br \/>\nHe was my best friend.<br \/>\nI never told him that I love him.<br \/>\nI wish he could be here right here with me.<br \/>\nThe clear blue rock she sits on becomes darker,<br \/>\nand darker as every tear falls from her face.<br \/>\nShe sits looking over the edge.<br \/>\nWill it kill me?<br \/>\nLet me be with him?<br \/>\nShould I fall over or walk town and continue with my life?<br \/>\nShe stands up<br \/>\nBawling now,<br \/>\nShe leans over the edge and jumps.<br \/>\nInstantly dead.<br \/>\nInstantly their souls meet in heaven. <\/p>\n<p>~April Sue Kraniak~ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Decisions ** As she climbs the hill to the top of the opening of the walk way underneath her feet. She sits. Dangling legs. Heart sinks. Tears rolling down her face. Wondering why. Why he had to leave. He was my best friend. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}