{"id":68270,"date":"2020-06-27T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68270"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:04:09","slug":"ifs-ands-maybes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/ifs-ands-maybes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ifs, Ands, Maybes"},"content":{"rendered":"

i am sick of “ifs ands or maybes”<\/span><\/p>\n

the possiblys and kindas rolling off the jokers tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n

i am more than just a “eh, well i guess” or “we’ll see.”<\/span><\/p>\n

shoulda<\/span><\/p>\n

coulda<\/span><\/p>\n

woulda<\/span><\/p>\n

left here on my toes a while ago, planting thorns on my running shoes.<\/span><\/p>\n

i am more than a “if”<\/span><\/p>\n

i am a definite.<\/span><\/p>\n

prettier than a “and”.<\/span><\/p>\n

i am the one, the only.<\/span><\/p>\n

more stronger than a “maybe”.<\/span><\/p>\n

a “yes” is the exchange i’ll take.<\/span><\/p>\n

don’t bounch my checkbook with these sorry transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n

i am a “definitely”, a “absolutely”, a “will go right now” type of woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

i only deliver promises. never indecisive thoughts of “ifs ands or maybes”<\/span><\/p>\n

i deserve better and i will get it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i am sick of “ifs ands or maybes” the possiblys and kindas rolling off the jokers tongue. i am more than just a “eh, well i guess” or “we’ll see.” shoulda coulda woulda left here on my toes a while ago, planting thorns on my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270","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\/821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68270\/revisions\/68295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}