{"id":67511,"date":"2020-06-27T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67511"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:43:16","slug":"a-letter-to-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-letter-to-my-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter to my past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You said that you wished we were real<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but we were, don\u2019t you see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we were not real, why does it hurt so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t need to pinch myself to feel the pain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to know that we were real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two years and I still catch my breath<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">when I see your face or hear your voice in my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We won\u2019t grow old together<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or cruise down the Ocean Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You won\u2019t carve our initials in the bench by<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the hydrangea but oh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we were real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people are meant to be together but\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it obviously wasn\u2019t us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You are gone, but the hurt it stays<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as real as you and me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You said that you wished we were real but we were, don\u2019t you see? If we were not real, why does it hurt so? I don\u2019t need to pinch myself to feel the pain to know that we were real. Two years and I still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136],"tags":[3597,3644,1417,2878],"class_list":["post-67511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-2020halfmarathon","tag-epistolarypoem","tag-hour4","tag-prompt4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67511","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\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67525,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67511\/revisions\/67525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}