{"id":48925,"date":"2019-06-22T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48925"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:40:03","slug":"innocence-lost-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/innocence-lost-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocence Lost Too Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>won\u2019t you come and live with us?<br \/>\nI\u2019ll protect you she says<br \/>\ntears in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I pause in painful silence<br \/>\nthat a child so young could perceive<br \/>\nneeds she should never imagine<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d rather have my entrails torn<br \/>\nfrom my bloodied body<br \/>\nheart still beating life into my being<\/p>\n<p>than know this innocent<br \/>\nalready knows the depths of fear<br \/>\npalpable yet unspoken between her elders<\/p>\n<p>her future lies in the balance<br \/>\nand I am powerless to protect her<br \/>\nfrom a mother who has no soul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>won\u2019t you come and live with us? I\u2019ll protect you she says tears in her eyes. I pause in painful silence that a child so young could perceive needs she should never imagine I\u2019d rather have my entrails torn from my bloodied body heart still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925","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\/1273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48946,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions\/48946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}