{"id":49656,"date":"2019-06-22T14:10:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49656"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:10:02","slug":"rip-houseplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rip-houseplant\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Houseplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the day I brought you home<\/p>\n<p>full of life, full of potential<\/p>\n<p>I tried my best to give you what you needed<\/p>\n<p>Bright sunlight, but not direct<\/p>\n<p>Water once a week<\/p>\n<p>a nice big pot for growing<\/p>\n<p>But it has not been enough.<\/p>\n<p>The first leaf dropped and I thought,<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this is just from the trauma of the big move<\/p>\n<p>Then another, and another, and another.<\/p>\n<p>Entire branches came off.<\/p>\n<p>I began to worry.<\/p>\n<p>The weeks went by.<\/p>\n<p>I called my mother.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t know what I was doing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy leaves one day fall off dead the next<\/p>\n<p>I run my hand over you, and you drop another five.<\/p>\n<p>You are a shadow of your former self, only so many leaves left<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>You are dying in front of my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>And all I can do is pick up your dead body parts off my floor.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry I brought you here.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had known.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Houseplant.<\/p>\n<p>You deserved better<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49764\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/64953421_684300825349713_5031066356288585728_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/64953421_684300825349713_5031066356288585728_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/64953421_684300825349713_5031066356288585728_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the day I brought you home full of life, full of potential I tried my best to give you what you needed Bright sunlight, but not direct Water once a week a nice big pot for growing But it has not been enough. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49656","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\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49769,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49656\/revisions\/49769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}