{"id":67383,"date":"2020-06-27T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67383"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:03:28","slug":"tang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tang\/","title":{"rendered":"Tang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I kiss you I taste Tang,<\/p>\n<p>the bitter sweetness lighting<\/p>\n<p>up my lips, my tongue. Memories<\/p>\n<p>of an old you play in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>But that you really wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>you. It was him, before<\/p>\n<p>he left and took my heart<\/p>\n<p>with him hundreds of miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Tang on your mouth tastes<\/p>\n<p>like his old cigarettes,<\/p>\n<p>sticky lip-gloss, and music<\/p>\n<p>playing way too loud as wind<\/p>\n<p>brushed hair against our cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>I kiss you and remember<\/p>\n<p>who we were: the best<\/p>\n<p>of friends, lovers meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tang &nbsp; When I kiss you I taste Tang, the bitter sweetness lighting up my lips, my tongue. Memories of an old you play in my mind. But that you really wasn\u2019t you. It was him, before he left and took my heart with him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67383","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67655,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67383\/revisions\/67655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}