{"id":52638,"date":"2019-06-22T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52638"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:33:28","slug":"11-to-18-year-old-me-her-name-is-joanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/11-to-18-year-old-me-her-name-is-joanie\/","title":{"rendered":"11. To 18 Year Old Me: Her Name is Joanie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\nYou’re gonna see some shit
\nDo some things not worth remembering, but you will
\nTrust me, though.
\nIt’ll be worth it<\/p>\n

You you’ll meet her
\n(No not her; pay attention)
\nAfter some trying times and nearly lethal moments
\nYou’ll wish for death and hope for relief
\nAnd you’ll find it, but not when you should
\nYou’ll meet her
\n(No, not her either; focus)
\nAt the moment you think it can never get better
\nBut it will
\nShe’ll make sure of it.
\n(No, not her; she breaks you like the others)
\nAsk her name first, though.
\nIt’ll be better than what you did say
\nTrust me, it’s not worth repeating
\nJust remember, she’s hurting, too.
\n(Yes, her.)
\nYou can’t be like you were with the others
\nYou have to really work at this, cause she’s you
\n(Yes, her. I’m sure)
\nYou have to show her you’re worthy
\nYou have to let go of your fears
\nBecause she’s afraid, too.
\nShe’ll demand from you, what the others never understood
\nCause they never really cared to consider you.
\nShe will.
\nShe does.
\nEvery day.<\/p>\n

I have to tell you, though.
\nThere will be pain
\nAnd it will hurt
\nThere will be blood
\nThere will be words, you’ll regret and will shoulder for years to come
\nJust remember, her name is Joanie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’re gonna see some shit Do some things not worth remembering, but you will Trust me, though. It’ll be worth it You you’ll meet her (No not her; pay attention) After some trying times and nearly lethal moments You’ll wish for death and hope for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52638","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52898,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52638\/revisions\/52898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}