{"id":69973,"date":"2020-06-27T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69973"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:53:04","slug":"use-your-words-like-you-used-me-prompt-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/use-your-words-like-you-used-me-prompt-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Words Like You Used Me (Prompt 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once full paragraphs replaced by cartoon faces<br \/>\nEasy to end a conversation with a heart or a thumbs up<br \/>\nLike your vocabulary has been reduced to one singular motion<br \/>\nThere was emotion I held space for<br \/>\nWhen you needed words I gave you many<br \/>\nSurprising now to receive any<br \/>\nAnd never deeper than the surface<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s the purpose of this game and why<br \/>\nDo I feel like I am losing<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re not using full sentences<br \/>\nI can only keep guessing<br \/>\nTexting is a sorry substitute for watching the shape your lips made<br \/>\nWhen they said best friend soulmate maybe wife<br \/>\nI love you &#8211; you told me<br \/>\nYet you&#8217;d hold me down as less than<br \/>\nMessages to fill your time<br \/>\nCondescend my bared skin poetry<br \/>\nThe loyalty I showed you &#8211; I never owed you anything<br \/>\nYou can say that we&#8217;re still friends but in the end<br \/>\nYou send me crumbs to keep me hungry<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no stranger to starvation<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s expected desperation<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll get the same response you give the most<br \/>\nMaybe a shrugging stranger<br \/>\nBut probably a ghost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once full paragraphs replaced by cartoon faces Easy to end a conversation with a heart or a thumbs up Like your vocabulary has been reduced to one singular motion There was emotion I held space for When you needed words I gave you many Surprising&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72817,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69973\/revisions\/72817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}