{"id":51662,"date":"2019-06-22T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51662"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:31:13","slug":"guilty-pleasure-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/guilty-pleasure-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Pleasure (hour 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have this tiny, little, guilty pleasure.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes, I don\u2019t look where I\u2019m going,<br \/>\n<\/span>and I make men walk around me.<br \/>\nYou see, it\u2019s funny because they<br \/>\nwalk right through me instead<\/p>\n<p>They cut me off, and I apologize.<br \/>\nThey cheat on me, and I apologize.<br \/>\nThey lie to me, and I apologize.<br \/>\nThey attack me, and I apologize.<\/p>\n<p>Another guilty pleasure:<br \/>\nI date the wrong guys.<br \/>\nThe guys who can\u2019t keep rhythm,<br \/>\nand don\u2019t understand reason.<br \/>\nYou see, it\u2019s perfect because then,<br \/>\nthey can always blame me.<\/p>\n<p>I said stop, and I apologized.<br \/>\nI said go away, and I apologized.<br \/>\nI said please, and I apologized.<br \/>\nI said don\u2019t, and I apologized.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny, little, guilty secret:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">whether he was pinning me to the ground<br \/>\n<\/span>or holding a gun against my head,<br \/>\nI was asking for it,<br \/>\nor at least that\u2019s what my mother said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yuck&#8230;this needs a lot of reworking, but here it is&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this tiny, little, guilty pleasure. Sometimes, I don\u2019t look where I\u2019m going, and I make men walk around me. You see, it\u2019s funny because they walk right through me instead They cut me off, and I apologize. They cheat on me, and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51662","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\/1302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51681,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51662\/revisions\/51681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}