{"id":50402,"date":"2019-06-22T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50402"},"modified":"2019-07-02T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T18:01:18","slug":"truth-telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/truth-telling\/","title":{"rendered":"truth-telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let them lie to you. This shit is HARD.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a thankless grind,<br \/>\na neverending litany of everything you<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t know<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t finish<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t get right<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t make it through<br \/>\nand every day it<br \/>\nstarts over<br \/>\nkeeps coming<br \/>\nwon\u2019t stop<br \/>\nwon\u2019t ever stop<br \/>\n<em>won\u2019teverevereverstop<\/em><br \/>\nand you can\u2019t make the ends meet<br \/>\nand you can\u2019t make the pieces fit<br \/>\nand you\u2019re quite certain that the light at the end of this tunnel is<br \/>\nan oncoming train.<\/p>\n<p><em>But some days\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some days it all falls into place.<br \/>\nIt all comes together and comes into focus.<br \/>\nAnd you can trace the patterns and see the path.<br \/>\nAnd the light hits everything\u00a0<em>just right<\/em>\u00a0and you\u2019re quite certain that<br \/>\n<em>you\u2019ve never been a part of anything more beautiful in your life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So no lies. This shit is HARD.<br \/>\nBut some days?<br \/>\nSome days this shit is\u00a0<em>MAGIC<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t let them lie to you. This shit is HARD. It\u2019s a thankless grind, a neverending litany of everything you didn\u2019t know didn\u2019t finish didn\u2019t get right didn\u2019t make it through and every day it starts over keeps coming won\u2019t stop won\u2019t ever stop won\u2019teverevereverstop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402","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\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50402"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59042,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions\/59042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}