{"id":62819,"date":"2020-06-27T11:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62819"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:06:47","slug":"the-jar-brandy-goodman-poems-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-jar-brandy-goodman-poems-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jar (Brandy Goodman Poems #3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Standard\"><em><b><u>The Jar<\/u><\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Bottled up within me<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Deep down in my core<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Lies a jar that&#8217;s over flowing<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>With something I don&#8217;t want anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>I want to take that bottle<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>And smash it to the ground,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Ridding myself of its contents,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Before it causes me to drown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>But the bottle just refuses<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>To come into the light,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>It doesn&#8217;t want to be scrutinized,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>So it stays hidden from my sight.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>So I sit partially submerged,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Because the jar refuses to budge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>The jar has taken over my life,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Standard\"><em>Because I held a grudge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jar Bottled up within me Deep down in my core Lies a jar that&#8217;s over flowing With something I don&#8217;t want anymore. I want to take that bottle And smash it to the ground, Ridding myself of its contents, Before it causes me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1364,"featured_media":16645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819","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\/1364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63005,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819\/revisions\/63005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}