{"id":69584,"date":"2020-06-27T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69584"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:28:01","slug":"moonshadow-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/moonshadow-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonshadow (Hour 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moonshadow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guitars.<br \/>\nGentle music.<br \/>\nPatterned shirts.<br \/>\nBell bottoms.<\/p>\n<p>The girl that was me hovers near as I listen to <em>Moonshadow<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u201cRemember when you wore mini-skirts?\u201d she taunts.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s right. I\u2019m not that girl now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I ever lose my \u2026\u201d croons <em>Moonshadow<\/em>.<br \/>\nThe girl that was says, \u201cI won\u2019t ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I have.<\/p>\n<p>Losing, losing, lost.<br \/>\nLost the days of quasi hippiness.<br \/>\nLost the days of quasi happiness.<br \/>\nLost the slender figure.<br \/>\nLost the energy.<br \/>\nLost the innocence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Moonshadow<\/em> has an answer, though.<br \/>\n\u201cI won\u2019t have to \u2026 anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>For every loss there has been a bonus, a blessing, a better perspective.<br \/>\nA better me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonshadow Guitars. Gentle music. Patterned shirts. Bell bottoms. The girl that was me hovers near as I listen to Moonshadow. \u201cRemember when you wore mini-skirts?\u201d she taunts. She\u2019s right. I\u2019m not that girl now. \u201cIf I ever lose my \u2026\u201d croons Moonshadow. The girl that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69584","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69681,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69584\/revisions\/69681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}