{"id":66543,"date":"2020-06-27T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66543"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:13:33","slug":"some-things-i-should-have-told-you-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/some-things-i-should-have-told-you-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things I should have told you #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order<br \/>\nI like the colour blue,<br \/>\nEvery time the baby cries, I remember amma<br \/>\nHow she cried too when the days got hard<br \/>\nThat time you brought me a flower<br \/>\nI dreamt about a garden at night<br \/>\nI don\u2019t write as much as I should<br \/>\nI am afraid of words and what they do<br \/>\nI want to go to Amsterdam some day<br \/>\nYou\u2019re the only person who has seen me cry<br \/>\nWhen my brother was twenty, he left home<br \/>\nI wait for him to return sometimes<br \/>\nOne day I watched the stars<br \/>\nAnd realized I was not lost<br \/>\nI\u2019ve kept the little note you wrote in a diary<br \/>\nI hope I won\u2019t have to throw it away<br \/>\nI have a friend who will bring me sunflowers<br \/>\nWhen I realize my days are few<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a little box in my head locked with a key<br \/>\nInside is a book and a photograph of you laughing<br \/>\nI liked it when you laughed<br \/>\nIt made me think of home<br \/>\nWhen I said even songbirds stop singing<br \/>\nI wished it wasn\u2019t true<br \/>\nThat day I let you go, I wanted you to stay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In no particular order I like the colour blue, Every time the baby cries, I remember amma How she cried too when the days got hard That time you brought me a flower I dreamt about a garden at night I don\u2019t write as much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67024,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543\/revisions\/67024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}