{"id":51813,"date":"2019-06-22T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51813"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:47:00","slug":"the-mortgaged-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-mortgaged-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The mortgaged heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">1<br \/>\nSomehow I\u2019ve never thought to say anything<br \/>\nit\u2019s hard to complain<br \/>\nwhen the terms have never been disclosed<br \/>\nand you don\u2019t know who holds the note<br \/>\nor when it\u2019s supposed to come due<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I guess I\u2019ve always figured the payments<br \/>\nwill eventually get to the right person<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2<br \/>\nIs every project a \u2018fixer-upper\u2019?<br \/>\nHow much labour should we expect to put in?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3<br \/>\nI\u2019ve given it away before<br \/>\nthinking the arrangement was permanent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Every deal breaks eventually<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">4<br \/>\nAm I mistaken in thinking<br \/>\nthat mine was built for two<br \/>\nwhen it\u2019s really just a room for rent?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">5<br \/>\nI should stop my yammering<br \/>\nand get ready for the open house<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m hoping to find a buyer this time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(22 June 2019, Hour Nine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Somehow I\u2019ve never thought to say anything it\u2019s hard to complain when the terms have never been disclosed and you don\u2019t know who holds the note or when it\u2019s supposed to come due I guess I\u2019ve always figured the payments will eventually get to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1173,156,2771,1163,2798,3015],"class_list":["post-51813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-9","tag-june-2019","tag-kevin-j-oconner","tag-poetry-marathon-2019","tag-prompt-use-the-title-of-a-book-you-havent-read-as-a-starting-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51827,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51813\/revisions\/51827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}