{"id":49798,"date":"2019-06-22T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49798"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:04:17","slug":"the-tribulation-of-a-closed-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-tribulation-of-a-closed-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tribulation of a Closed Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart crawled and circled, banging against the caged walls of your heart. It did this for years, not knowing why, beyond some &#8220;should&#8221; of commitment. Then it was time to release your heart and fall away. In the lull, I turned inward, digested myself, hanged myself from a tall oak. I spun my heart away, locked myself in a shiny chrysalis and as an amorphous mass of imaginal cells, I was over. Until I wasn&#8217;t, until I grew wings, a new body, a new everything defined no longer by you, but by sunlight and self, power and love. I emerged anew, whole and complete, reborn into sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart crawled and circled, banging against the caged walls of your heart. It did this for years, not knowing why, beyond some &#8220;should&#8221; of commitment. Then it was time to release your heart and fall away. In the lull, I turned inward, digested myself,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49798","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\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50288,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49798\/revisions\/50288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}