{"id":47350,"date":"2019-06-22T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47350"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:35:43","slug":"wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/wasting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasting time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasting time<\/p>\n<p>is easy to do when I\u2019m with you.<br \/>\nDays become weeks become years ticking<br \/>\naway with each stroke of the clock, each rev<br \/>\nof the engine. Being with you makes<br \/>\nme understand just how small we really<br \/>\nare. Like trying to catch drops of water<br \/>\nleaking from the faucet, not knowing<br \/>\nthe bottom of my cup has a heart-<br \/>\nsized hole. I try to crumple up every<br \/>\ngift, every memory, every moment<br \/>\nlike a scrap of paper pencil-penned<br \/>\nwith lyrics of a bad tune. But<br \/>\nI wonder if I can when I realize<br \/>\nthat I\u2019m the one saying goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasting time is easy to do when I\u2019m with you. Days become weeks become years ticking away with each stroke of the clock, each rev of the engine. Being with you makes me understand just how small we really are. Like trying to catch drops&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47350","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47357,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47350\/revisions\/47357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}