{"id":94589,"date":"2021-06-26T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94589"},"modified":"2021-07-18T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T18:40:22","slug":"the-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a blue moon,<br \/>\nI take out an old picture of myself<br \/>\njust to check how many wrinkles I&#8217;ve added<br \/>\nsince I crossed happy days<\/p>\n<p>Once in a blue moon,<br \/>\nI try to recollect just what you whispered<br \/>\ninto my ears as we made love<br \/>\nbut all that echos is the crack of a sharp slap across my face<\/p>\n<p>Once in a blue moon,<br \/>\nI drink wine from the flute<br \/>\njust to remind myself that its cracked, sharp edge<br \/>\ncan no longer press against my throat as I&#8217;m backed far up against the wall<\/p>\n<p>Once in a blue moon,<br \/>\nI use my silver brush to smoothen my silver strands<br \/>\nThey lost their dark colour too soon, but my dark secret&#8230;<br \/>\nthat will last my lifetime and a little more<\/p>\n<p>Once in a blue moon,<br \/>\nI walk downstairs into the cellar<br \/>\nto check for the stench of yesterday<br \/>\nbut the rats seem to have wiped away every inch of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a blue moon, I take out an old picture of myself just to check how many wrinkles I&#8217;ve added since I crossed happy days Once in a blue moon, I try to recollect just what you whispered into my ears as we made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4250,2376,4196],"class_list":["post-94589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021halfmarathon","tag-hour9","tag-manoshibose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94589","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104500,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94589\/revisions\/104500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}