{"id":66891,"date":"2020-06-27T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66891"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:07:49","slug":"7-shoulda-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/7-shoulda-been\/","title":{"rendered":"#7     Shoulda Been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red felt cowboy hat<\/p>\n<p>Double holster holding two cap guns<\/p>\n<p>After smoke the smell lingering<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>White stitching around the brim<\/p>\n<p>The hat resting on by back<\/p>\n<p>Covering my five-year old self<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I saw no cowgirls<\/p>\n<p>No politically correct ladies<\/p>\n<p>On horseback ready to ride<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women were in saloons or<\/p>\n<p>Canning vegetables back<\/p>\n<p>At the ranch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I shoulda been a cowboy<\/p>\n<p>Or a mountain man tending<\/p>\n<p>To my bountiful whiskey still<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But alas no one noticed<\/p>\n<p>The cowboy in this girl<\/p>\n<p>She faded to chasing boys<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Curling her hair<\/p>\n<p>Hanging up her guns<\/p>\n<p>The red felt hat forgotten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red felt cowboy hat Double holster holding two cap guns After smoke the smell lingering &nbsp; White stitching around the brim The hat resting on by back Covering my five-year old self &nbsp; I saw no cowgirls No politically correct ladies On horseback ready to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66935,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66891\/revisions\/66935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}