One day<\/p>\n
Someone will read this story<\/p>\n
And wonder<\/p>\n
What the hell happened here?<\/em><\/p>\n One day<\/p>\n They’ll reach Chapter 8<\/p>\n And say<\/p>\n “It can’t possibly get worse than this.”<\/em><\/p>\n One day<\/p>\n They’ll put the story down in disgust.<\/p>\n They’ll say<\/p>\n “Didn’t they consider dropping this altogether?”<\/em><\/p>\n One day<\/p>\n They will give up on me<\/p>\n My story<\/p>\n And go on with theirs, forgetting it.<\/p>\n But one day<\/p>\n Someone will pick up my story<\/p>\n And they’ll say<\/p>\n “I am amazed they made it this far.”<\/em><\/p>\n And one day<\/p>\n They will reach the end of my story<\/p>\n They’ll say<\/p>\n “I’m glad I stuck it out to the end.”<\/em><\/p>\n And<\/p>\n If that’s you, I owe you a drink.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “If that’s you, I owe you a drink.” Is the last line in the book Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Seabastian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One day Someone will read this story And wonder What the hell happened here? One day They’ll reach Chapter 8 And say “It can’t possibly get worse than this.” One day They’ll put the story down in disgust. They’ll say “Didn’t they consider dropping this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90279","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90446,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90279\/revisions\/90446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}