{"id":63732,"date":"2020-06-27T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63732"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:32:32","slug":"poem-4-a-letter-redstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-4-a-letter-redstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #4, A Letter, RedStar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Sarge,<\/p>\n<p>I felt your pain,<\/p>\n<p>and I wish I&#8217;d loved you better then.<\/p>\n<p>My dark and twisted friend,<\/p>\n<p>I miss your wicked sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the little boy who played peek-a-boo from behind the steel walls and barbed-wire fences.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d loved you better then.<\/p>\n<p>I trust you forgive me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned a lot since then.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I&#8217;ve learned to love myself.<\/p>\n<p>And forgive myself.<\/p>\n<p>And heal the pain I felt.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Sarge, I felt your pain, and I wish I&#8217;d loved you better then. My dark and twisted friend, I miss your wicked sense of humour. I miss the little boy who played peek-a-boo from behind the steel walls and barbed-wire fences. I wish I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732","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\/1420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64754,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732\/revisions\/64754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}