{"id":54289,"date":"2019-06-22T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54289"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:10:38","slug":"hope-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hope-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression often robs me of this feeling.<br \/>\nStrips it away bit by bit<br \/>\nwith devastating truths<br \/>\nthat everyone hates me,<br \/>\nand I\u2019m terrible,<br \/>\nand I don\u2019t deserve to be loved.<\/p>\n<p>Even when I feel robbed of hope,<br \/>\nit\u2019s only just sleeping.<br \/>\nThe coals buried under the ash<br \/>\nwaiting to be awoken.<br \/>\nAffirmations, good food,<br \/>\nand time with friends brush away the ash<br \/>\nand breathe life into the coals.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, the fire returns.<br \/>\nWaxing and waning,<br \/>\nbut always there,<br \/>\neven on the coldest, darkest nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression often robs me of this feeling. Strips it away bit by bit with devastating truths that everyone hates me, and I\u2019m terrible, and I don\u2019t deserve to be loved. Even when I feel robbed of hope, it\u2019s only just sleeping. The coals buried under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54290,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions\/54290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}