{"id":92946,"date":"2021-06-26T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92946"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:34:04","slug":"books-a-love-poem-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/books-a-love-poem-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Books-A love poem\/Hour 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books were my friend<br \/>\nwhen I was a little girl<br \/>\nThey taught me things<br \/>\nand kept my loneliness at bay<br \/>\nBooks never bullied me<br \/>\nnor did they call me names<br \/>\nBooks never said I didn&#8217;t belong<br \/>\nor I was too young to play<br \/>\nInstead, they held my hands and<br \/>\ntook me to lands so far away<br \/>\nThey shared with me their secrets<br \/>\nand made me laugh as well<br \/>\nThey showed me the world was scary<br \/>\nbut I was safe with them<br \/>\nThey spoke to me of tragedy<br \/>\nbut said hope still lives<br \/>\nThey taught me different customs,<br \/>\ncultures and histories galore<br \/>\nWhen I was with Books<br \/>\nI could never say I was bored<br \/>\nThis is my ode to Books<br \/>\nmy friend that stayed true<br \/>\nThat soothes me when I&#8217;m feeling frazzled<br \/>\nAnd grounds me when I&#8217;m sad<br \/>\nTo this day I can&#8217;t imagine<br \/>\nmy life without Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books were my friend when I was a little girl They taught me things and kept my loneliness at bay Books never bullied me nor did they call me names Books never said I didn&#8217;t belong or I was too young to play Instead, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92946","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92946\/revisions\/93126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}