{"id":8404,"date":"2015-06-13T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:24:09","slug":"i-l-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/i-l-y\/","title":{"rendered":"I. L. Y."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was out of my loneliness?<br \/>\nOr the phantom he left behind, ever day?<\/p>\n<p>You were here when I needed most<br \/>\nA face that smiled when I smiled<br \/>\nGot all nervous and shy, whenever our eyes met for longer than a pause<br \/>\nOr just a single breath<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what drew me into you, I think.<\/p>\n<p>That and our rapport that could segue from nothing more than a look<br \/>\nMy look, as I walked past on my day to day routine<br \/>\nWhile you sipped your coffee and smoked<br \/>\nStaring back over the rim of your cup and your glasses.<br \/>\nA smile. My smile.<br \/>\nAll for me.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the first time we kissed<br \/>\nAt the pier, in the dead of winter<br \/>\nFreezing and shaking<br \/>\nThough I shook for more than just the cold<br \/>\nAnticipation?<\/p>\n<p>I still have that shell you found<br \/>\nThe one you searched for<br \/>\nJust for me.<br \/>\nThe inscription you wrote<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still there<br \/>\nFaded<br \/>\nBut still there.<\/p>\n<p>As am I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it was out of my loneliness? Or the phantom he left behind, ever day? You were here when I needed most A face that smiled when I smiled Got all nervous and shy, whenever our eyes met for longer than a pause Or just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}