{"id":61609,"date":"2020-06-27T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61609"},"modified":"2020-06-29T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T07:04:27","slug":"my-romance-with-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/my-romance-with-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"My Romance With The Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My romance with the bottle<br \/>\nI beseech thee oh bottle!<br \/>\nI greet thee oh bottle!<br \/>\nMy best friend!<br \/>\nMy comforter!<br \/>\nMy confidant!<br \/>\nMy bulwark\u2026.never failing!<br \/>\nI have come again<br \/>\nAs I usually come<br \/>\nTo seek solace\u2026in your depths!<br \/>\nTo seek your brand of wisdom!<br \/>\nTo seek\u2026a dulling of the senses<br \/>\nTo seek forgetfulness<br \/>\nTo be lulled away\u2026soothed in your arms\u2026as usual<br \/>\nThey call me drunkard<br \/>\nBut I really couldn\u2019t be bothered<br \/>\nWhat do they know\u2026anyways!<br \/>\nThey do not comprehend the enjoyment found in your depths<br \/>\nThe particular brand of wisdom\u2026found in your recesses<br \/>\nThey say I stagger and fall in the gutters after exploring your depths<br \/>\nBully for them..I say!<br \/>\nIs it their \u201cstagger\u201d? Is it their \u201cfall\u201d?<br \/>\nThe bottle is mine\u2026.and I am his<br \/>\nNothing can separate us<br \/>\nOh bottle\u2026\u2026<br \/>\nThou bottle\u2026.<br \/>\nWhen I am filled to the hilt\u2026I spew the peculiar brand of wisdom<br \/>\nThat\u2026\u2026can only be found in your depth<br \/>\nSorrows\u2026\u2026.relegated<br \/>\nUnpaid bills forgotten\u2026<br \/>\nResponsibilities\u2026\u2026cast aside<br \/>\nFamily\u2026..disregarded<br \/>\nI vow most solemnly to continue to find solace in you<br \/>\nNothing can change that<br \/>\nNothing will change that<br \/>\nI greet thee oh bottle<br \/>\nMy loyalty lies\u2026solely with you<br \/>\nThank you for a life changing transformation<br \/>\nI salute thee\u2026I salute thee!<br \/>\nThis romance will\u2026last forever!<\/p>\n<p>My Romance With The Bottle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My romance with the bottle I beseech thee oh bottle! I greet thee oh bottle! My best friend! My comforter! My confidant! My bulwark\u2026.never failing! I have come again As I usually come To seek solace\u2026in your depths! To seek your brand of wisdom! To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61609","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\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77316,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61609\/revisions\/77316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}