{"id":63569,"date":"2020-06-27T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63569"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:38:40","slug":"of-swans-and-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/of-swans-and-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Swans and Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were times, I know<br \/>\nYou were ready to go<br \/>\nBut you stayed<br \/>\nAnd my world spun on<br \/>\nGave me air to breathe<br \/>\nA reason to still believe<\/p>\n<p>Is there time, to go back and remember, who we are?<\/p>\n<p>You came up today<br \/>\nIn the light of my brain<br \/>\nJust as I thought to step away<br \/>\nFor a second or two<br \/>\nI&#8217;d forgotten your face<br \/>\nDarkened by my anger<br \/>\nAnd my idiosyncratic ways<br \/>\nYou brought me back to my senses<\/p>\n<p>Is there time, to go back and remember, who we are?<\/p>\n<p>There are words to say<br \/>\nMoments left to play<br \/>\nOut in the world<br \/>\nWe brave the worst together<br \/>\nEven if it&#8217;s the worst in us both<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll remain right where we both need us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were times, I know You were ready to go But you stayed And my world spun on Gave me air to breathe A reason to still believe Is there time, to go back and remember, who we are? You came up today In the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63980,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions\/63980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}