{"id":50945,"date":"2019-06-22T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50945"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:13:51","slug":"hour-8-post-8-the-daydreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-8-post-8-the-daydreamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8: Post 8: The Daydreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creativity, chaos, illusions and dreams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sadness, laughter, anxiety and defeat <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what makes me who I am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thoughts so scattered you couldn&#8217;t try and piece them together if you tried<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Memories so embedded into my brain that I couldn&#8217;t carve them out with a knife if I needed to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Regrets that burn so deep, no amount of medicine can take away the sting<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what it&#8217;s like living with demons inside your head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All they do is continually wish you dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remaining strong and grounded is a chore that most people couldn&#8217;t even believe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet I wake up every morning <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Battling the same thoughts, day after day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proving to myself and the world that while I may sometimes just live in a daydream <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;m also the hero in my own, unspoken, unappreciated story<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity, chaos, illusions and dreams Sadness, laughter, anxiety and defeat This is what makes me who I am Thoughts so scattered you couldn&#8217;t try and piece them together if you tried Memories so embedded into my brain that I couldn&#8217;t carve them out with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945","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\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50953,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50945\/revisions\/50953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}