{"id":74559,"date":"2020-06-28T03:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74559"},"modified":"2020-06-28T03:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:59:41","slug":"same-same-but-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/same-same-but-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Same Same but Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt 18 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 6) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months later, I was back<br \/>\nI walked through the deceptively thick forest<br \/>\nA smile on my face for what was to come<br \/>\nAs we emerged onto the stunning blue coast<br \/>\nI turned to him<br \/>\nAnd his face mimicked what I had first felt<br \/>\nEighteen months ago<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months ago, I came on my own<br \/>\nNot alone, but on my own<br \/>\nNow, I tug at his sleeve to go faster<br \/>\nAs I try to catch up with my memories<br \/>\nEverything is the same<br \/>\nThe sky. The sea. The trees. The cliffs.<br \/>\nThe horizontal branch extending into the sky that I had posed on<br \/>\nEighteen months ago<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months later, we reach the coastal rocks<br \/>\nA pair of seals frolicking in the distance<br \/>\nNot unlike their human counterparts<br \/>\nAs we dip our feet in the lagoon<br \/>\nI realize we have reached the end of the trail<br \/>\nI had ended eighteen months ago<br \/>\nLittle did I know I would be back<br \/>\nI look up at the coast, and then, down, at our hands, intertwined<br \/>\nSame same but different<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 18 (Half Marathon 2 Hour 6) Eighteen months later, I was back I walked through the deceptively thick forest A smile on my face for what was to come As we emerged onto the stunning blue coast I turned to him And his face&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74560,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74559\/revisions\/74560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}