{"id":56436,"date":"2019-06-23T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56436"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:41:19","slug":"last-dance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/last-dance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have until the night is over<br \/>\nand words waste our last breaths.<br \/>\nFirst love never lingers long<br \/>\nit succumbs to an early death.<br \/>\nThis ballad marks the future<br \/>\nthat has committed theft.<br \/>\nLights circle the walls<br \/>\nreminding us of minutes left.<br \/>\nPull your body close to mine<br \/>\nfeel the harmonic motion.<br \/>\nHand on my back, lean in and<br \/>\ngive your final devotions.<br \/>\nWe have shared bruises<br \/>\nbeaten by the sandman\u2019s hands.<br \/>\nWhy I had to go I\u2019ll spend forever<br \/>\ntrying to understand.<br \/>\nWe have until the night is over<br \/>\nto do so as we wish.<br \/>\nSo with seconds left<br \/>\nI plant a kiss<br \/>\nas my parting gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have until the night is over and words waste our last breaths. First love never lingers long it succumbs to an early death. This ballad marks the future that has committed theft. Lights circle the walls reminding us of minutes left. Pull your body&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56436","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56444,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56436\/revisions\/56444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}