{"id":52689,"date":"2019-06-22T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52689"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:28:01","slug":"dear-current-me-hour-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-current-me-hour-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Current Me (hour 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear me,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once, you had cotton candy princess hair.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>You had butterflies in your tummy and<br \/>\nnoble intentions made your heart beat.<br \/>\nYou had a soft voice, giggly laugh, and couldn\u2019t<br \/>\never remember where you put your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Music was your oxygen.<br \/>\nPoetry was the only language you understood.<br \/>\nYou lived for books and learning and silence.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you have a cotton candy heart.<\/p>\n<p>You have moths in your stomach and<br \/>\nbitter outlooks block your aorta,<br \/>\nYou have a hard voice, RBF, and can\u2019t seem<br \/>\nto let your Iphone out of your hand long enough for it to cool.<\/p>\n<p>Music brings the tears, so it\u2019s better not to breathe.<br \/>\nPoetry is the only way to cover scars.<br \/>\nYou live to sleep now and search for friendly faces and<br \/>\nyou always look for the exit before you sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Your soul was pretty, pink bubbles and glitter and hope.<br \/>\nNow, it\u2019s hardened stone, just waiting to be rolled away.<\/p>\n<p>I hope for our sake, you get better.<br \/>\nBreath some music and eat some words.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t be this numb forever.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear me, Once, you had cotton candy princess hair. You had butterflies in your tummy and noble intentions made your heart beat. You had a soft voice, giggly laugh, and couldn\u2019t ever remember where you put your phone. Music was your oxygen. Poetry was the&#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-52689","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\/52689","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=52689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52839,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52689\/revisions\/52839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}