{"id":64262,"date":"2020-06-27T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64262"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:05:20","slug":"4-plight-of-the-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/4-plight-of-the-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"4 &#8211; Plight of the Sparrow; A Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What will it take to show the world that I&#8217;m worth keeping?<\/p>\n<p>Burn in the waste of all the time you spent, your precious moments<\/p>\n<p>Unfold into me<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be your muse, I&#8217;ll be your effigy<\/p>\n<p>If only for one passing phase<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stay until the skies change<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who tasted the moon and so carelessly called it honey?<\/p>\n<p>I fear I have worn my welcome<\/p>\n<p>I fear y\u0336o\u0336u\u0336&#8217;\u0336v\u0336e\u0336 \u0336s\u0336e\u0336e\u0336n\u0336 \u0336t\u0336o\u0336o\u0336 \u0336m\u0336u\u0336c\u0336h\u0336 you&#8217;ve seen enough of me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if your love for me turned bitter by the morning?<\/p>\n<p>A gentle caress could twist and break my hollow bones at moment&#8217;s notice<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m drifting with the shifting winds<\/p>\n<p>Your hurricane is threatening to break my wings<\/p>\n<p>Your heavy breath draws me in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will it take to show the world that I&#8217;m worth keeping? Burn in the waste of all the time you spent, your precious moments Unfold into me I&#8217;ll be your muse, I&#8217;ll be your effigy If only for one passing phase I&#8217;ll stay until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3442],"class_list":["post-64262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262","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\/1488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65866,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64262\/revisions\/65866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}