{"id":94696,"date":"2021-06-26T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94696"},"modified":"2021-07-08T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:43:51","slug":"hour-1-story-tellers-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-1-story-tellers-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 &#8211; Story-teller&#8217;s lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spend your life telling stories to folks,<br \/>\nand you start to believe a Lie.<br \/>\nThat each story arc shall denoument,<br \/>\nbefore a character is allowed to Die.<\/p>\n<p>I believed the myths we told ourselves:<br \/>\nused this to ignore every single sign.<br \/>\nAnd before I said what needed to be said,<br \/>\nthe stroke cut out his mind.<\/p>\n<p>You get one last conversation.<br \/>\nWith everyone you know.<br \/>\nMy last one with him I gave rejection,<br \/>\nand am now reaping what I sowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend your life telling stories to folks, and you start to believe a Lie. That each story arc shall denoument, before a character is allowed to Die. I believed the myths we told ourselves: used this to ignore every single sign. And before I said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696","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\/3715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94696"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104279,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions\/104279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}