{"id":75213,"date":"2020-06-28T05:55:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75213"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:55:30","slug":"longing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/longing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve learned not to long for things<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Not out loud anyway<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In case it makes the pixies<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Remember what a sense of humour is<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And execute some swift response at my expense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ll keep shtum, lips pressed together<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Heart beating lightly and perhaps<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ll permit me an inkling of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Something in my mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It feels fake to be needy when<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I have more than many.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But when I\u2019m sure the pixies are sleeping<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Or elsewhere making their special brand of mischief<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I might open a magazine or click on a link<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I might just allow myself to think<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Oh about what?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shhhhh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve learned not to long for things Not out loud anyway In case it makes the pixies Remember what a sense of humour is And execute some swift response at my expense. &nbsp; I\u2019ll keep shtum, lips pressed together Heart beating lightly and perhaps I\u2019ll&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":75229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3441,3966,3475,454,3967,3965,3968],"class_list":["post-75213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-jlnash","tag-fake","tag-janenash","tag-longing","tag-needy","tag-pixies","tag-shtum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75213","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\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75233,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75213\/revisions\/75233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}