{"id":3962,"date":"2014-08-24T03:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2014-08-24T03:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:17:48","slug":"rules-and-boundaries-i-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/rules-and-boundaries-i-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules and Boundaries I Don&#8217;t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt connected with him<\/p>\n<p>From the first kiss<\/p>\n<p>The kiss that never should have happened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I knew I wasn&#8217;t supposed to love him<\/p>\n<p>Because it was wrong<\/p>\n<p>Because that wasn&#8217;t our deal<\/p>\n<p>Because I love another<\/p>\n<p>Because I wear a ring<\/p>\n<p>But I never understood how love could be wrong<\/p>\n<p>Or bad<\/p>\n<p>Or Inappropriate<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always believed that love is always good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned that most don&#8217;t agree.<\/p>\n<p>There are rules I&#8217;m told to follow<\/p>\n<p>Boundaries I&#8217;m told I must not cross<\/p>\n<p>Rules and boundaries that I don&#8217;t understand<\/p>\n<p>But I must respect<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to love him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like it just happened and I was caught unaware<\/p>\n<p>I saw it coming and I stepped forward to meet it<\/p>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t go far<\/p>\n<p>It couldn&#8217;t go far<\/p>\n<p>It was suffocated by the<\/p>\n<p>Rules and the boundaries I don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt connected with him From the first kiss The kiss that never should have happened. &nbsp; I knew I wasn&#8217;t supposed to love him Because it was wrong Because that wasn&#8217;t our deal Because I love another Because I wear a ring But I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}