{"id":53672,"date":"2019-06-22T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53672"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:00:40","slug":"those-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/those-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those Choices<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark <\/p>\n<p>Beautiful<br \/>\nAscended<br \/>\nA thousand times I died<br \/>\nPromising to return<br \/>\nI saw no reason not<br \/>\nTo keep away from the other side<br \/>\nBecause<br \/>\nIt seemed like giving up<br \/>\nAnd I didn&#8217;t want to leave the stage <\/p>\n<p>-plus there was this promise I had made-<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t afraid of leaving<br \/>\nBut saw no need to go<br \/>\nSo I linger on<br \/>\nDespite<br \/>\nThe<br \/>\nBeautiful<br \/>\nAscended<br \/>\nWorld that there is beyond<br \/>\nThe Universe is kind to us<br \/>\nIt lets us fundamentally decided<br \/>\nWe might regret<br \/>\nOur choices later<br \/>\nIt might seem a disservice was committed<br \/>\nIt does a world of wonder<br \/>\nTo handle some starlight<br \/>\nand remember how<br \/>\nBeautiful<br \/>\nAscended<br \/>\nThose choices are always there<br \/>\nIf we ever want to make them<br \/>\nDying is always there<br \/>\nLiving is always there too<br \/>\nThe better gift of the two<br \/>\nThe harder gift to take<br \/>\nWe must be brave and we must<br \/>\nNever forget<br \/>\nThe scintillating joy we felt<br \/>\nWhen we chose the light within<br \/>\nand to return that self same light<br \/>\nto the world we walk <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those Choices Virginia Carraway Stark Beautiful Ascended A thousand times I died Promising to return I saw no reason not To keep away from the other side Because It seemed like giving up And I didn&#8217;t want to leave the stage -plus there was this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[2846,3019,3121,352,2793,3120,355,52],"class_list":["post-53672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-2019poetrymarahon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-beautiful-poems","tag-best-poems","tag-best-poems-2019","tag-life-after-death","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53672","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53784,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53672\/revisions\/53784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}