{"id":68236,"date":"2020-06-27T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68236"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:38:26","slug":"fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/fight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of who would fight for me<br \/>\nWhen war was waged<br \/>\nI thought of whose hands would grip the handle of a blade<br \/>\nAnd wield it in my honor<\/p>\n<p>Who would bleed<br \/>\nThrowing fists and kicks<br \/>\nSlicing skin with sharpened knives<br \/>\nRaising a hand in triumph<br \/>\nBelieving that I was worthy of it all<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, I should defend myself<br \/>\nBut my hands are covered in bruises<br \/>\nKnuckles covered in open wounds<br \/>\nBlood dripping between my fingers<\/p>\n<p>My heart is tired<br \/>\nFrom the battles I\u2019ve won<br \/>\nOn my own<\/p>\n<p>Twisted ankles<br \/>\nSprain wrists<br \/>\nFractured bones<br \/>\nConcussion<br \/>\nAfter<br \/>\nConcussion<br \/>\nAfter<br \/>\nConcussion<\/p>\n<p>I thought of who would fight for me<br \/>\nOf who would risk their lives for my benefit<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s lonely here<br \/>\nBut I must continue to fight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of who would fight for me When war was waged I thought of whose hands would grip the handle of a blade And wield it in my honor Who would bleed Throwing fists and kicks Slicing skin with sharpened knives Raising a hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68236","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68244,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68236\/revisions\/68244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}