{"id":73172,"date":"2020-06-28T00:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73172"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:32:28","slug":"young-affection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/young-affection\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Affection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that stupid messy hair<br \/>\nhas bothered her for weeks<br \/>\nshe can&#8217;t stop drawing<br \/>\nhis hands pushing unruly curls<br \/>\nhe doesn&#8217;t ask her to smile<br \/>\nwhen they take a selfie<br \/>\nonly adjusts the angle<br \/>\nabout 400 times<br \/>\nthe end result<br \/>\nis worth it<br \/>\nhe gives her every pickle<br \/>\nfrom his burgers<br \/>\nbecause she likes the crunch<br \/>\nthe vinegar and salt<br \/>\nhis family is funny<br \/>\nso generous<br \/>\nwith the little they can give<br \/>\nhe makes her smile<br \/>\nmost days<br \/>\nand when he can&#8217;t<br \/>\nhe brings her gifts<br \/>\nof quiet<br \/>\nand time<br \/>\nto sort the sadness out<br \/>\nhe isn&#8217;t always perfect<br \/>\nforgets some things<br \/>\nrarely on time<br \/>\nfails all his planned<br \/>\nBig Gestures<br \/>\nbut she isn&#8217;t either<br \/>\nsnaps when she&#8217;s hangry<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t good with feelings<br \/>\nhas to slowly learn<br \/>\nto trust<br \/>\nshe cuts his hair<br \/>\nin quarantine<br \/>\nlong enough to curl<br \/>\nhe frames her sketch<br \/>\nthe two of them<br \/>\nwrapped up in a hug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that stupid messy hair has bothered her for weeks she can&#8217;t stop drawing his hands pushing unruly curls he doesn&#8217;t ask her to smile when they take a selfie only adjusts the angle about 400 times the end result is worth it he gives her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73172","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77726,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73172\/revisions\/77726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}