{"id":46161,"date":"2019-06-22T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46161"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:45:54","slug":"goodbye-jealousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/goodbye-jealousy\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Jealousy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47472 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190622_224442-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190622_224442-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190622_224442-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190622_224442-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190622_224442.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jealousy was an old acquaintance of mine<br \/>\nAn inner voice that uttered an endless rant,<br \/>\nBecause she was obsessed in being the best,<br \/>\nA master manipulator, she made an ogre out of me,<br \/>\nPlanted in me the seed of hate,<br \/>\nUrged me to wish for others to fail,<br \/>\nCoached me to act a pretentious life,<br \/>\nTaught me to erase guilt caused by cruelty,<br \/>\nPushed me to envy the strengths of others,<br \/>\nAssisted me in bragging , boasted many lies,<br \/>\nWhispered me disparaging words, belittled me,<br \/>\nKept me imprisoned in the darkest sea of misery,<\/p>\n<p>But I had ceased to listen,<br \/>\nI broke free from the shackles of her oppression,<br \/>\nGained freedom, detoxed my emotions,<br \/>\nI said good bye to Jealousy.<br \/>\nI was awaken, the absolute truth illuminated my path,<br \/>\nWhat did I see? A beautiful world, full of opportunities,<br \/>\nSo I skipped misery, found solace in life,<br \/>\nEmbraced the true purpose of my existence,<br \/>\nNone were better or less than me,<br \/>\nI am unique, found my own blessed strength,<br \/>\nNurtured my potentials, harvested my crops,<br \/>\nAchieved my dreams and awakened more like me,<br \/>\nShowed them the light, fished them out of the dark,<br \/>\nBecause everyone deserves a fair chance,<br \/>\nTo shoot an arrow, aiming to bulls eye on happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Jealousy still visits me often, banging at my door,<br \/>\nAnd I still says no to her, today, tomorrow,<br \/>\nAnd for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jealousy was an old acquaintance of mine An inner voice that uttered an endless rant, Because she was obsessed in being the best, A master manipulator, she made an ogre out of me, Planted in me the seed of hate, Urged me to wish for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161","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\/1247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47477,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46161\/revisions\/47477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}