{"id":73205,"date":"2020-06-28T00:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73205"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:14:04","slug":"conquering-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/conquering-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Conquering Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conquering Distance<\/p>\n<p>My heart grieves with you, uninvited.<br \/>\nSo, take this poem enveloped in warmth<br \/>\nto be an assurance of affection.<\/p>\n<p>Your motherly concern for humanity<br \/>\nis what the world has not agreed<br \/>\nshe lacks, like a beautiful maiden of no values.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to call you the other night<br \/>\nto remind you certain songs won&#8217;t just play<br \/>\nif you do not open your body.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, I prize you above gold and silver.<br \/>\nAnd if I do not write you my tenderness,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d burn; this flame knows no stint.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you say what about distance?<br \/>\nMother, you taught me not to regard<br \/>\nwhat stops me from reaching a height.<\/p>\n<p>Damn it. Is there a place songs can&#8217;t reach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conquering Distance My heart grieves with you, uninvited. So, take this poem enveloped in warmth to be an assurance of affection. Your motherly concern for humanity is what the world has not agreed she lacks, like a beautiful maiden of no values. I decided to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73205","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86339,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73205\/revisions\/86339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}