The words he spoke were fairy floss,
\nTheir taste so sugary sweet,
\nYou’d swear if it was\u00a0possible,
\nThey’d be all you’d ever eat,
\nBut the thing with wads of\u00a0fairy floss,
\nIs they’re always quick to melt,
\nUntil you’re sticky with the memories,
\nOf the love you swore you felt,
\nAnd suddenly you see the truth,
\nYou crave it less and less,
\nFor a little sugar’s always nice,
\nBut it isn’t worth the mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The words he spoke were fairy floss, Their taste so sugary sweet, You’d swear if it was\u00a0possible, They’d be all you’d ever eat, But the thing with wads of\u00a0fairy floss, Is they’re always quick to melt, Until you’re sticky with the memories, Of the love…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[232,231,15,10],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-fairy-floss","tag-food","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}