{"id":8082,"date":"2015-06-13T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:31:09","slug":"forge-hour-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/forge-hour-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Forge (Hour Four)"},"content":{"rendered":"

She told me she wouldn’t be mine.<\/p>\n

Such insolence from such a common girl.<\/p>\n

Perhaps she knows that, while common,<\/p>\n

She is nothing<\/em> but common.<\/p>\n

She is something rare, and I don’t know what,<\/p>\n

And I suppose I never will.<\/p>\n

I am on fire,<\/p>\n

Hotter than the forge,<\/p>\n

To be shown this brand<\/p>\n

Of disrespect, by a girl in the foolish bloom of youth.<\/p>\n

So foolish, the bloom of youth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I told him I’d never be his.<\/p>\n

For I am in love with a secret.<\/p>\n

I have been shown the magic of this world,<\/p>\n

And now can never be a common man’s wife.<\/p>\n

I’ll never live the common life.<\/p>\n

The common life has already burned,<\/p>\n

Like the coal that heats his forge.<\/p>\n

I am the iron that has melted<\/p>\n

To take a new shape.<\/p>\n

I am molded by wings,<\/p>\n

Those great, dark wings,<\/p>\n

That took me far away,<\/p>\n

In the moment I first saw them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She told me she wouldn’t be mine. Such insolence from such a common girl. Perhaps she knows that, while common, She is nothing but common. She is something rare, and I don’t know what, And I suppose I never will. I am on fire, Hotter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}