{"id":48602,"date":"2019-06-22T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48602"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:26","slug":"so-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/so-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"So Simple (hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am the distant, divorced, defiant daughter<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of parents who persistently ponder<br \/>\n<\/span>why I can\u2019t just settle for simple.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I trust these trouble-makers to tell<br \/>\n<\/span>me the honest, blunt truth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I married simple, and simply put, I smiled sweetly<br \/>\n<\/span>while he wiped away our forever<br \/>\nwithout wrestling with whether or not it would<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kill me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you awake to the fact, that-<br \/>\n<\/span>\u201cgood\u201d is an adjective<br \/>\nnot a personality trait,<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">simple stops looking so sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48615\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/064302D3-351D-4ECE-800F-5B19B6EC8BB6-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/064302D3-351D-4ECE-800F-5B19B6EC8BB6-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/064302D3-351D-4ECE-800F-5B19B6EC8BB6-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/064302D3-351D-4ECE-800F-5B19B6EC8BB6.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/064302D3-351D-4ECE-800F-5B19B6EC8BB6-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the distant, divorced, defiant daughter of parents who persistently ponder why I can\u2019t just settle for simple. I trust these trouble-makers to tell me the honest, blunt truth. I married simple, and simply put, I smiled sweetly while he wiped away our forever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-marathon-poem","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48602","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\/1302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48602\/revisions\/48646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}