{"id":71744,"date":"2020-06-27T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71744"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:03:22","slug":"poem-12-the-toll-of-toxicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-12-the-toll-of-toxicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 12: The Toll of Toxicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toll of Toxicity<\/p>\n<p>The ghosts of my past have started to haunt me.<\/p>\n<p>I know that they are really just humans, but that is scary nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>I am scared that they will hurt me<\/p>\n<p>Or that someone will find out.<\/p>\n<p>My life could be ruined by tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>I force myself to take a deep breath<\/p>\n<p>I have wronged them but I&#8217;m safe now.<\/p>\n<p>Safe from their taunting<\/p>\n<p>Safe from their fighting.<\/p>\n<p>All I did was cut them off<\/p>\n<p>Ending my relationship with those toxic friends.<\/p>\n<p>My anxiety eases<\/p>\n<p>I am free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toll of Toxicity The ghosts of my past have started to haunt me. I know that they are really just humans, but that is scary nonetheless. I am scared that they will hurt me Or that someone will find out. My life could be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71744","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\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71744\/revisions\/71920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}