{"id":53214,"date":"2019-06-22T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53214"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:05:38","slug":"dear-former-self-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-former-self-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Former Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Former Self,<\/p>\n<p>You are extraordinary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let anyone tell you differently. They lie when they call you fat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe your own self doubt. You are smart enough, strong enough, &amp; enough just the way you are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You do not have to earn love. It is freely given and no misdeed can change it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Do not be afraid. Your silence isn\u2019t safety. Your words are your power.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strength already lies inside you. Your body is capable of healing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your heart will heal, too.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A broken heart is both an emotional and physical pain, like your anxious burning gasps when you fell off the jungle gym in third grade.<\/p>\n<p>Do not stop dreaming. Dream big, dream often.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You do not need to find yourself. You are not lost. You are creating an extraordinary you with every choice, every act, every day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Former Self, You are extraordinary.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let anyone tell you differently. They lie when they call you fat.\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe your own self doubt. You are smart enough, strong enough, &amp; enough just the way you are.\u00a0 You do not have to earn love&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214","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\/1288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53222,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53214\/revisions\/53222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}