{"id":56217,"date":"2019-06-23T03:51:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56217"},"modified":"2022-06-23T02:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T06:38:38","slug":"dear-love-a-self-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-love-a-self-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Love (a self poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest self,<\/p>\n<p>please forgive your gift of naivety<\/p>\n<p>it proves how honest you are<\/p>\n<p>you were born honest<\/p>\n<p>the world tainted you<\/p>\n<p>its not natural to be so protected<\/p>\n<p>Life is a challenge<\/p>\n<p>and you will continually be challenged<\/p>\n<p>you will continue to shed naivety<\/p>\n<p>others don\u2019t have your best interest<\/p>\n<p>but your own honesty taints your own thinking<\/p>\n<p>Dear girl,<\/p>\n<p>you get in your own way.<\/p>\n<p>Be who you naturally are<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t be too guarded or too easy<\/p>\n<p>stay stubborn<\/p>\n<p>it changes what you attract to you<\/p>\n<p>and be smart<\/p>\n<p>no matter how conflicting it is<\/p>\n<p>never trust in words<\/p>\n<p>trust in action<\/p>\n<p>save yourself from people who pretend to be islands<\/p>\n<p>when they are bound to explode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest self, please forgive your gift of naivety it proves how honest you are you were born honest the world tainted you its not natural to be so protected Life is a challenge and you will continually be challenged you will continue to shed naivety&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105828,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217\/revisions\/105828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}