{"id":43294,"date":"2017-08-06T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43294"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:04:27","slug":"the-ring-hour-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-ring-hour-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ring (Hour 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Don\u2019t stand that way \u2013 disgusted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">You are not a jilted lover or a poor peasant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">You are not quite ready, yet. Your jewelry waits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">on the bedstand. But I, my Love, cannot wait. I dream<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">of releasing your hair clip and catching your locks in my hands, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">inhaling you in one deep, lengthy breath. My lips quiver as I imagine <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">them on our naked neck. That\u00a0look on your face, as you lean into me\u00a0won\u2019t change,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">and your hand with the ring will travel to my back, under my shirt. But that ring, it doesn\u2019t belong to me. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t stand that way \u2013 disgusted. You are not a jilted lover or a poor peasant. You are not quite ready, yet. Your jewelry waits on the bedstand. But I, my Love, cannot wait. I dream of releasing your hair clip and catching your locks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294","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\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43298,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43294\/revisions\/43298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}