{"id":47655,"date":"2019-06-22T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47655"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:23:25","slug":"the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aren\u2019t we supposed to be perfect?<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve been \u201cthat couple\u201d for years,<br \/>\nmade it through life together,<br \/>\nstarted a new life together,<br \/>\nour friends always saying<br \/>\n\u201cI wish I had what you two have\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So why do we argue?<br \/>\nWhy does my mind tell me<br \/>\nsomething feels different.<br \/>\nOff.<\/p>\n<p>I love you. Deeply.<br \/>\nYou hold me close at night, and we feel united.<br \/>\nWe joke, we laugh,<br \/>\nwe act like the teenagers we aren\u2019t supposed to be anymore.<br \/>\nBut still, we have grown.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve changed in ways we don\u2019t quite grasp<br \/>\nand each day we learn who the other is<br \/>\nall over again.<\/p>\n<p>It is a test I would not take with anyone<br \/>\nbut you.<\/p>\n<p>It is one we don\u2019t always pass.<\/p>\n<p>But you are the man who saved my life,<br \/>\nand despite our arguments,<br \/>\ndespite our changing,<br \/>\nyou are the man who shows up for me every day,<br \/>\nwho takes care of me,<br \/>\nlike no one ever has.<\/p>\n<p>And I count myself lucky<br \/>\nthat I get to meet you<br \/>\nagain tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aren\u2019t we supposed to be perfect? We\u2019ve been \u201cthat couple\u201d for years, made it through life together, started a new life together, our friends always saying \u201cI wish I had what you two have\u201d So why do we argue? Why does my mind tell me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47655","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55777,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47655\/revisions\/55777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}