{"id":8317,"date":"2015-06-13T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:24:29","slug":"dramatis-personae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/dramatis-personae\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatis Personae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You open the door with no inkling of what&#8217;s to come;<\/p>\n<p>Today is the day I end it;<\/p>\n<p>We had a fun run, but it&#8217;s <i>over<\/i>, don&#8217;t you see?<\/p>\n<p>And this is going to be icky;<\/p>\n<p>Because you won&#8217;t cooperate;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting there with your green eyes;<\/p>\n<p>Crying like a bitch;<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t you just yell at me like I want you to do?<\/p>\n<p>Then I could yell back, leave and slam the door;<\/p>\n<p>It would be the easiest thing for both of us;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I have to sit here and listen to your weak shit as you blubber in my lap;<\/p>\n<p>And while I hold you I have to look around the room;<\/p>\n<p>I see the reminders of the times we fucked like beasts;<\/p>\n<p>I see where you held me as I told you about the woman I loved who left with tears in my eyes;<\/p>\n<p>And where, after I apologized taking up\u00a0<em>our\u00a0<\/em> date with that story, you just smiled and said &#8220;This is the work&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>No, bitch,\u00a0<em>this<\/em> is the work<\/p>\n<p>Because now I have to leave.<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You open the door with no inkling of what&#8217;s to come; Today is the day I end it; We had a fun run, but it&#8217;s over, don&#8217;t you see? And this is going to be icky; Because you won&#8217;t cooperate; Sitting there with your green&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8465,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}