{"id":41646,"date":"2017-08-06T04:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41646"},"modified":"2017-08-06T04:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:42:26","slug":"table-for-two-last-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/table-for-two-last-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Table for Two (last poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat waiting<br \/>\nAnd waiting<br \/>\nAnd deep down I had already known<br \/>\nHis true inner self he had really shown<\/p>\n<p>I had chosen the backdrop and it was stunning.<br \/>\nDesperate for romance, I looked at the sparkling Ocean<br \/>\nAnd recalled the last time I had been there<br \/>\nHad been under better circumstances<br \/>\nI was lying to my friends, \u201cHe\u2019s awesome\u201d<br \/>\nand to myself, \u201cWe can make this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our lives were too different.<br \/>\nHe was confused and I was working through my own stuff.<br \/>\nTogether, it was horrid.<br \/>\nA bad reality show that didn\u2019t deserve to be on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Trying too hard to put him into my life<br \/>\nI want fun and supportive, not more strife.<br \/>\nI can make myself feel badly without anyone\u2019s help.<br \/>\nI sighed. Ordered another drink.<\/p>\n<p>How did it take me this long to see?<br \/>\nBam! That\u2019s when I realized, I\u2019m better off with a Table for Me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat waiting And waiting And deep down I had already known His true inner self he had really shown I had chosen the backdrop and it was stunning. Desperate for romance, I looked at the sparkling Ocean And recalled the last time I had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41649,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions\/41649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}