{"id":46446,"date":"2019-06-22T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46446"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:53:19","slug":"replacing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/replacing-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Once, long ago,\r\nWhen love was new and young,\r\nWhen love was firm and supple,\r\nWhen love was as plentiful as hope,\r\nI threw my head back passionately and said,\r\n\u201cYou will never replace me! I am all you need!\u201d\r\n\r\nI am the love of your life. \r\nI am your partner in crime.\r\nI am the mother of your children.\r\nI am your secret keeper.\r\nI am your cheerleader.\r\nI am your champion.\r\n\r\nI freely gave my job description\r\nBoldly, fearlessly, proudly.\r\nYet, as hard as I tried, \r\nI no longer do.\r\nPassion falls to duty\r\nHurt destroys honor and trust.\r\n\r\nTime finds a way,\r\nTo distort, erode or forge.\r\nChanges so subtle and small,\r\nThat Shifts perceptions; assigns blame.\r\nUntil I scream with every cell in my body,\r\n\u201dYou can\u2019t replace me! I am already gone!\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, long ago, When love was new and young, When love was firm and supple, When love was as plentiful as hope, I threw my head back passionately and said, \u201cYou will never replace me! I am all you need!\u201d I am the love of&#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],"tags":[2137],"class_list":["post-46446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46446","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=46446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46777,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46446\/revisions\/46777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}