{"id":73208,"date":"2020-06-28T00:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73208"},"modified":"2020-06-28T00:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T04:47:33","slug":"cherish-hour-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cherish-hour-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherish &#8211; Hour 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each one a sense of hope and promise<br \/>\nEach one a blissful fantasy<br \/>\nHow many petals must be plucked before it lasts?<br \/>\nThis rose is starting to look skinny<\/p>\n<p>One brought me assurance of my self<br \/>\nOne gave me company<br \/>\nOne showed me a world of possibilities<br \/>\nOne pushed me to aim for the stars<br \/>\nEach boy an intense epiphany<br \/>\nI cherish our friendship, however brief<\/p>\n<p>But alas, the selection process is harsh<br \/>\nBy one way or another it wasn\u2019t meant to be<br \/>\nSo I leave each one of you my poetry<br \/>\nThe words I left unsaid<br \/>\nWhen they could\u2019ve mattered<br \/>\nWords thought best kept unread<br \/>\nTill I finally was free<br \/>\nOf the crushing grasp you held over me<\/p>\n<p>If it takes all my petals<br \/>\nI must go on<br \/>\nAnd find the one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each one a sense of hope and promise Each one a blissful fantasy How many petals must be plucked before it lasts? This rose is starting to look skinny One brought me assurance of my self One gave me company One showed me a world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73208","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73213,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73208\/revisions\/73213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}