{"id":40259,"date":"2017-08-06T00:41:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40259"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:41:57","slug":"the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have done this for a million years<br \/>\nAnd have seen you live<br \/>\nI have watched a planet die<br \/>\nAnd another born.<br \/>\nI have loved a woman in reverse<br \/>\nOur timelines running to the other ends<br \/>\nAnd through it all,<br \/>\nI am here.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I am The Doctor<br \/>\nAnd trust me you must<br \/>\nIf you refuse, my stories are meaningless<br \/>\nFor a leap of faith<br \/>\nA decree of absolutism<br \/>\nA requiem on imperatives &#8211;<br \/>\nMoral or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>How do you see me, I wonder?<br \/>\nAlways trying to slow down,<br \/>\nTo not speed ahead of you.<br \/>\nTo explain things<br \/>\nWithout giving away<br \/>\nEvent changing secrets<br \/>\nTo fixed points in time.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am the 13<br \/>\nLucky for some<br \/>\nClosed minded be damned.<br \/>\nFor they are unlike the TARDIS<br \/>\nThey are even smaller than they appear to be.<br \/>\nMostly they cannot see<br \/>\nAlthough I help them nonetheless<\/p>\n<p>I do<br \/>\nI can<br \/>\nI am the Doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have done this for a million years And have seen you live I have watched a planet die And another born. I have loved a woman in reverse Our timelines running to the other ends And through it all, I am here. Trust me,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[2609,680],"class_list":["post-40259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour16","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40269,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259\/revisions\/40269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}