{"id":56163,"date":"2019-06-23T03:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56163"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:42:47","slug":"just-as-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/just-as-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Just As You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear Sandi, as a teenage dreamer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">the first man you love is not a keeper<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">the art school path was just pass\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">instead a four year college may<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">win a better job today<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You need not look like models fair<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">a thousand calorie diets beware<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">you\u2019re imperfect, but never fear<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">weight is not the problem, dear<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How you look it matters not<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">back then you\u2019ll see what you now ought<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">that diets don\u2019t work, no matter what<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">just three meals a day<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">and overeat, do NOT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Learn from errors, love carefully<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">be the kindest you can be<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">linger not in past or future <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">wasted time is all a blur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just live for today, and may<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">you always pray and stay<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">reminded always of this tome<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">so when someday wrongs go then<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">just start anew, begin again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">-Sandra Johnson, 6\/22\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sandi, as a teenage dreamer the first man you love is not a keeper &nbsp; the art school path was just pass\u00e9 instead a four year college may win a better job today &nbsp; You need not look like models fair a thousand calorie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56163","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56191,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56163\/revisions\/56191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}