{"id":76162,"date":"2020-06-28T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76162"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:44:38","slug":"did-you-get-your-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/did-you-get-your-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you get your wish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nIs it not day?<br \/>\nHave the dark shadows of night<br \/>\nNot been banished by the sun<br \/>\nAnd thus bright enough to dry your tears?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nIs this not what you wanted?<br \/>\nHave not flowers returned<br \/>\nTheir garish colors<br \/>\nEnough to brighten your eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nDo you not see?<br \/>\nWas it not you who wished for peace<br \/>\nAnd for everyone to agree<br \/>\nThus necessitating this solution?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nWhy do you stay?<br \/>\nWhy here in the deep ruin<br \/>\nOf what was once our world<br \/>\nDo you linger and delay?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nHave you finally gotten what you wished for?<br \/>\nOnly to see that wishes<br \/>\nHave consequences<br \/>\nThat you did not anticipate?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you weep so long my love?<br \/>\nI grow weary of this grief<br \/>\nWhich has no place<br \/>\nAs far as I can tell<br \/>\nOn the face of one who got their desires<\/p>\n<p>Weep all you want my love<br \/>\nI will leave you here<br \/>\nThis was not the world that I wanted<br \/>\nBut it is the one that is still here<br \/>\nIt will have to do<\/p>\n<p>Weep all you want my love<br \/>\nOne last thing before I go<br \/>\nNext time<br \/>\nBe careful<br \/>\nWhat you wish for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you weep so long my love? Is it not day? Have the dark shadows of night Not been banished by the sun And thus bright enough to dry your tears? Why do you weep so long my love? Is this not what you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162","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=76162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76166,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76162\/revisions\/76166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}