{"id":92663,"date":"2021-06-26T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92663"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:16:59","slug":"hour-seven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-seven-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normal<br \/>\n\\\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l\\<br \/>\nadjective<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the way i should have responded when you left. you said it so fast, i wasn&#8217;t sure i heard correctly. i should have fought for you. asked you what i did wrong. after all, isn&#8217;t that what society tells women to do? it always seems to be a woman&#8217;s fault when the man leaves. when I was sure you were leaving, i should have cried. i should have written countless poems asking what i did wrong. isn&#8217;t that what is expected during heartbreak? instead, i just stood on the porch and watched your taillights disappear in the rain.<\/li>\n<li>how it felt when you left. i no longer felt like i was stuck in reverse. i could live my life on my own terms. &#8220;why is she so happy being alone?&#8221; i hear people whisper as i pass them. society tells us we should not be joyous in our independence. little do they know the truth of our relationship. i was finally free from my cage.<\/li>\n<li>now, i lie next to him. i do not feel the need to watch my words. i do not feel the need to give more than i take. is this love?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal \\\u02c8n\u022fr-m\u0259l\\ adjective the way i should have responded when you left. you said it so fast, i wasn&#8217;t sure i heard correctly. i should have fought for you. asked you what i did wrong. after all, isn&#8217;t that what society tells women to do?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663","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\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92883,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions\/92883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}