{"id":64969,"date":"2020-06-27T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64969"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:31:06","slug":"what-still-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/what-still-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"what still hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i know what&#8217;s coming<br \/>\ncats don&#8217;t live longer than people<br \/>\ni remember the pain<br \/>\nthe ineffable grief<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t want to get out of bed don&#8217;t want to go to school<br \/>\nhow could i<br \/>\nwhen the best cat the world ever had was dead<br \/>\ni wish i wasn&#8217;t there when the vet put her down<br \/>\nshe was scared <\/p>\n<p>i wonder as i pet sleek black fur<br \/>\nand rub a spotted tabby tummy<br \/>\nif this is worth it<br \/>\nis the joy they give me now<br \/>\ngreater than what will come<br \/>\nwhat still hurts <\/p>\n<p>maybe it is not a matter of worth<br \/>\nof choice<br \/>\nbut of necessity<br \/>\nmaybe i need these furry companions<br \/>\nto love unconditionally<br \/>\nto break my heart<br \/>\nsomeday<br \/>\nmaybe not<br \/>\ni think they might be worth it <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i know what&#8217;s coming cats don&#8217;t live longer than people i remember the pain the ineffable grief don&#8217;t want to get out of bed don&#8217;t want to go to school how could i when the best cat the world ever had was dead i wish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64969","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65033,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64969\/revisions\/65033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}