{"id":51896,"date":"2019-06-22T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51896"},"modified":"2022-06-05T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:44:03","slug":"love-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/love-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver had his Jennifer;<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen has his Stefanie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ollie and Jenny:<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve and Stef.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They met in college<\/span><\/p>\n

As did Steve and I.<\/span><\/p>\n

His parents didn\u2019t approve of Jenny<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor did Steve\u2019s approve of me.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They met in a library;<\/span><\/p>\n

We met in a gym.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jenny was a teacher<\/span><\/p>\n

And so was I<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s memorial to his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLove means never having to say you\u2019re sorry\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jennifer\u2019s infamous words to her preppy.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oliver, when in need of money, was asked by his dear ol\u2019 dad<\/span><\/p>\n

Why, have you “gotten a girl in trouble?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve\u2019s granny once said similar words, but to me<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe always knew you trapped him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cTo make a long story short\u201d or \u201cGet in the kitchen, woman!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Are some of Steve\u2019s most famous lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a lover not a fighter\u201d or \u201cMost men do\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Are often some of Stef\u2019s retorts.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oliver loved his Jenny;<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve loves his Stef.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their story comprised a novella<\/span><\/p>\n

Ours will need a few sequels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oliver had his Jennifer; Stephen has his Stefanie. Ollie and Jenny: Steve and Stef.   They met in college As did Steve and I. His parents didn\u2019t approve of Jenny Nor did Steve\u2019s approve of me.   They met in a library; We met in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105300,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896\/revisions\/105300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}