{"id":89453,"date":"2021-06-26T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89453"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:49:06","slug":"how-i-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-i-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding My Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young<br \/>\nhopes rose unbound<br \/>\nbut experience cautioned<br \/>\nlike a caring abuela<br \/>\n<em>don&#8217;t hold your breath<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A few more years of living,<br \/>\nand many disappointments later,<br \/>\nhope approached more timidly.<br \/>\nExperience shouted back<br \/>\nlike a protective sibling<br \/>\n<em>DON&#8217;T HOLD YOUR BREATH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I am a slow learner.<br \/>\nThe hope in me persists<br \/>\ndespite all evidence<br \/>\nthat it shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nAnd the warning is now the whisper of a caring friend:<br \/>\n<em>don&#8217;t hold your breath.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I recognize good advice when I hear it.<br \/>\nI recognize love when I feel it.<br \/>\nI recognize realities and choose to accept or change them.<br \/>\nI now let hope rise and the voice within me says<\/p>\n<p><em>just breathe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young hopes rose unbound but experience cautioned like a caring abuela don&#8217;t hold your breath. A few more years of living, and many disappointments later, hope approached more timidly. Experience shouted back like a protective sibling DON&#8217;T HOLD YOUR BREATH Perhaps I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4210],"class_list":["post-89453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89910,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453\/revisions\/89910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}