{"id":88938,"date":"2021-06-26T10:46:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88938"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:01:21","slug":"hour-one-something-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-one-something-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One: Something Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How foolish I have been to have charged blindly into the fray<\/p>\n<p>A world too cruel,\u00a0 too sharp for innocent girls&#8217; eyes<\/p>\n<p>Stumbling through things not meant for me<\/p>\n<p>Fleeing a place I no longer wished to be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How has this world twisted me,\u00a0 bent me,\u00a0 made me what it wished me to be<\/p>\n<p>Pulled and turned,\u00a0 leaving nothing but a dangling fray<\/p>\n<p>Wishing I did not have these eyes<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to be blind to what they&#8217;ve done to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that I no longer know how to be me?<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to please,\u00a0 just be who I&#8217;m supposed to be<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve acted the part so long my soul is only that fray<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve adjusted my sight to the illusion,\u00a0 mirages before my eyes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I still look back on that day when I rushed away with tears in my eyes<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how I could&#8217;ve let this happen to me<\/p>\n<p>When there is so much more I could be<\/p>\n<p>As I rebraid the fray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How foolish I have been to have charged blindly into the fray A world too cruel,\u00a0 too sharp for innocent girls&#8217; eyes Stumbling through things not meant for me Fleeing a place I no longer wished to be &nbsp; How has this world twisted me,\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88938","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\/88938","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\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89040,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88938\/revisions\/89040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}