{"id":67595,"date":"2020-06-27T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67595"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T19:19:37","slug":"season-of-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All roads led us here,<br \/>\nthough we couldn\u2019t see where they\u2019d end.<br \/>\nWe promised love for forever.<br \/>\nNow we\u2019re just trying to be friends.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t ask for this season<br \/>\nor the wildfires that burned.<br \/>\nWe didn\u2019t imagine at the beginning<br \/>\nthat our lives would take this turn.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s reckoning season,<br \/>\nour chickens came home to roost.<br \/>\nThere is no turning back<br \/>\nfrom the change we induced.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just burn clear the land<br \/>\nso we can both start anew.<br \/>\nI\u2019ll let go of your hand.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the least I can do.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s both make a fresh start<br \/>\nat the lives we envision.<br \/>\nI hope we both find ourselves<br \/>\nas we endure this division.<\/p>\n<p>A new season awaits,<br \/>\nas this season ends.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s move forward, hearts open<br \/>\nLet\u2019s try to stay friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All roads led us here, though we couldn\u2019t see where they\u2019d end. We promised love for forever. Now we\u2019re just trying to be friends. I didn\u2019t ask for this season or the wildfires that burned. We didn\u2019t imagine at the beginning that our lives would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[2293,3206],"class_list":["post-67595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour7","tag-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67595","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77882,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67595\/revisions\/77882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}