{"id":73718,"date":"2020-06-28T01:58:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73718"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:58:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:58:22","slug":"stand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/stand-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can\u2019t fix it you\u2019ve got to stand it.<\/p>\n<p>-Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx<\/p>\n<p>There was supposed to be<br \/>\nopen space for everything<br \/>\nto be as they were<\/p>\n<p>Some way for things to be<br \/>\nwhat he knew and<br \/>\nalways held dear<\/p>\n<p>He tried to believe<br \/>\nthat there was a way<br \/>\nit could be done<\/p>\n<p>But he was caught between<br \/>\nthe memories of something wonderful<br \/>\nand the nothing they were offering<\/p>\n<p>About this time<br \/>\nold words came back to him<br \/>\nfrom a story he once read<\/p>\n<p>And rang in his head<br \/>\nlike a bell ringing over and over<br \/>\nif you can\u2019t fix it you\u2019ve got to stand it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can\u2019t fix it you\u2019ve got to stand it. -Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx There was supposed to be open space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73718","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\/73718","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73728,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73718\/revisions\/73728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}