I suddenly remembered the stars-<\/p>\n
not the ones in the night sky<\/p>\n
but the ones you had tattooed<\/p>\n
on your arms while still in high school.<\/p>\n
You regretted them as soon<\/p>\n
as the needle stopped.<\/p>\n
Your buzz was wearing off,<\/p>\n
and they were the last tattoos<\/p>\n
you ever had done.<\/p>\n
You felt like a poser<\/p>\n
trying to become<\/p>\n
something you’d never be:<\/p>\n
a shining light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I suddenly remembered the stars- not the ones in the night sky but the ones you had tattooed on your arms while still in high school. You regretted them as soon as the needle stopped. Your buzz was wearing off, and they were the last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911","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\/1022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39949,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911\/revisions\/39949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}