{"id":75923,"date":"2020-06-28T07:16:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75923"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:16:24","slug":"long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/long-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fingers rest on another set of keys hours away,<br \/>\nYounger years and different way here,<br \/>\nBright overdrive gentle handle with all care,<br \/>\nStruggle fault and two inches above water,<br \/>\nNothing needs to actually be fair,<br \/>\nExchange of selfless gestures,<br \/>\nA way around such conventions.<br \/>\nRefusing to ask or answer why,<br \/>\nSome hooks fuse in the mouths they lay.<\/p>\n<p>Only long along an act, not person thing or being about.<br \/>\nTo long to have my own self recognised exposed and tender<br \/>\nGiving what she knows she never possessed,<br \/>\nMaking me enough by allowing herself to risk,<br \/>\nThrowing all in our skin to this game,<br \/>\nRisk but earned by all we went through,<br \/>\nSo often we yelled projection &amp; undermine,<br \/>\nYet a reflection of all we yearn and hold<br \/>\nSacred inside locked up away is apt.<br \/>\nWhat a frame to bound this wayward boy.<\/p>\n<p>She sits on top<br \/>\nAnd pulls my string<br \/>\nHarsh she is not<br \/>\nYet important it seems<br \/>\nTo hold back the repeat<br \/>\nOf haunting she carries<br \/>\nBackground security playing all night<br \/>\nStill excited yet distant<br \/>\nBetter now be her shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fingers rest on another set of keys hours away, Younger years and different way here, Bright overdrive gentle handle with all care, Struggle fault and two inches above water, Nothing needs to actually be fair, Exchange of selfless gestures, A way around such conventions. Refusing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75923","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\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75925,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75923\/revisions\/75925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}