{"id":90297,"date":"2021-06-26T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90297"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:16:39","slug":"hour-3-the-girl-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-3-the-girl-in-the-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3: The Girl in the Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate the girl I see in the mirror<\/p>\n<p>She stares back, I hate her more<\/p>\n<p>Her incomplete story of tarnished desire,<\/p>\n<p>Her tangled mess of thoughts set on fire<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hate the girl I see in the mirror<\/p>\n<p>A hate that is light, so light that it creeps in slowly,<\/p>\n<p>Through each crevice, each crack in her mind<\/p>\n<p>And chips away at the girl hidden behind,<\/p>\n<p>The hate, the loathing, peeking through hopes declined<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hate the girl I see in the mirror<\/p>\n<p>And she hates me more because I let her forget, forget how to love herself<\/p>\n<p>And remind her only that time traps her in an image of hate,<\/p>\n<p>A resentment I spend years to create<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s easier to hate the girl in the mirror, than let her love who casts the reflection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate the girl I see in the mirror She stares back, I hate her more Her incomplete story of tarnished desire, Her tangled mess of thoughts set on fire &nbsp; I hate the girl I see in the mirror A hate that is light,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90297","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\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90297\/revisions\/90301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}