{"id":66879,"date":"2020-06-27T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66879"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:07:14","slug":"the-season-of-goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-season-of-goodbyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be that way<\/p>\n<p>The way everyone started leaving us<br \/>\nlike they were destined<br \/>\nto ride a star out to another galaxy<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen so fast<\/p>\n<p>We were supposed to be able to sit<br \/>\naround the fire telling stories<br \/>\nfor a lot longer<br \/>\nthan the fire lasted<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to hurt so much<\/p>\n<p>When their last raspy breaths<br \/>\nleft their bodies so limp<br \/>\nand lifeless<br \/>\nand the light left everything<br \/>\nand no amount of watching<br \/>\nthe scene in movies<br \/>\ncould&#8217;ve prepared me for the emptiness<br \/>\ntheir absence left behind<\/p>\n<p>So hollow<br \/>\nSo goodbye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be that way The way everyone started leaving us like they were destined to ride a star out to another galaxy It wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen so fast We were supposed to be able to sit around the fire telling stories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66879","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\/1439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66931,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66879\/revisions\/66931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}