{"id":56375,"date":"2019-06-23T04:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56375"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:22:04","slug":"rage-against-the-hopeless-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/rage-against-the-hopeless-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage Against the Hopeless Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why sing of love at this hour?<br \/>\nWhen the big hand is at 4<br \/>\nAll I desire is my nightly rest<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve worked and walked all day<br \/>\nYet you stroll in early in the morn&#8217;<br \/>\nTo sing of your painful suffering<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t care for your love<br \/>\nYesterday, I saw her leaving<br \/>\nWith another around her arm<\/p>\n<p>Go home and give it a break<br \/>\nYour strings won\u2019t do the trick<br \/>\nNo matter what, she isn\u2019t yours<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got to get going<br \/>\nMy mind can\u2019t function<br \/>\nWork is already a pain<\/p>\n<p>Pebbles to her window<br \/>\nAre sirens in my ears<br \/>\nOh, stop this mess now!<\/p>\n<p>If you won\u2019t hush this mess,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll have to give it a try<br \/>\nMaybe I\u2019ll court her tonight<\/p>\n<p>Only then, will you leave me be<br \/>\nIf she is with me, then no worries<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be able to sleep a full 8 hrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why sing of love at this hour? When the big hand is at 4 All I desire is my nightly rest I\u2019ve worked and walked all day Yet you stroll in early in the morn&#8217; To sing of your painful suffering She doesn\u2019t care for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56386,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions\/56386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}