{"id":76311,"date":"2020-06-28T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76311"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:15:16","slug":"prompt-24-giving-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-24-giving-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 24: Giving Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I could pack up my insecurities<br \/>\nand let them sit in a warehouse,<br \/>\nI would.<br \/>\nIt would be the gift that, having it taken from me,<br \/>\nwould certainly make me  more productive.<\/p>\n<p>Money might not make you happier, but knowing<br \/>\nyou have the right to social interaction without dread<br \/>\nis priceless.<br \/>\nI once wondered what it would be like to have the ability<br \/>\nto see myself as others see me.<br \/>\nIt wouldn&#8217;t have made Margo Channing happy,<br \/>\nand I know I wouldn&#8217;t like to hear it, either.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to wish for a wire to know what<br \/>\nmy friends think of me.<br \/>\nI want to know I&#8217;m the best person I can be, and accept<br \/>\nmy flaws and not be concerned with whether others do or not.<\/p>\n<p>How much longer through this life do I have to<br \/>\ncarry this invisible weight that serves no purpose<br \/>\nbut to remind me I&#8217;m not living in the moment?<\/p>\n<p>I could be happier. I want to be happier.<br \/>\nThe face I see in the mirror looks tired<br \/>\nof holding in her breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could pack up my insecurities and let them sit in a warehouse, I would. It would be the gift that, having it taken from me, would certainly make me more productive. Money might not make you happier, but knowing you have the right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[4018],"class_list":["post-76311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-allabouteve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76453,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311\/revisions\/76453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}