{"id":70248,"date":"2020-06-27T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70248"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:12:33","slug":"thorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/thorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say roses have grace,<br \/>\nWhere roses bloom,<br \/>\nThe thorns come around too.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty is the rose,<br \/>\nThe queen of the garden,<br \/>\nThe gift from heaven,<br \/>\nThen where do thorns come in?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is beauty without pain?&#8221;<br \/>\nwondered the actress,<br \/>\nwhile polishing her nails again and again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rose is the queen,<br \/>\nThorns are the useless pawns,&#8221;<br \/>\nremarked the gardener,<br \/>\nwhile sitting on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rose is the child,<br \/>\nWho saw her petals mercilessly plucked away.<\/p>\n<p>So now she stands all alone,<br \/>\nWith thorns as the defense of her own.<\/p>\n<p>She knows the cost of opening up,<br \/>\nSo she stays still,<br \/>\nWith thorns adorning her stem,<br \/>\nHidden as they are,<br \/>\nFor those who dare to harm her in any way,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whispered the girl with the scars,<br \/>\nFor the time had taught her,<br \/>\nTo build her walls high,<br \/>\nTo lean behind the thorns,<br \/>\nHidden even in plain sight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Addy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say roses have grace, Where roses bloom, The thorns come around too. Beauty is the rose, The queen of the garden, The gift from heaven, Then where do thorns come in? &#8220;What is beauty without pain?&#8221; wondered the actress, while polishing her nails again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[3453,1173,23,17,15,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-70248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2020-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-life","tag-nature","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248","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\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70877,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70248\/revisions\/70877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}