{"id":94860,"date":"2021-06-26T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94860"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:09:03","slug":"this-too-shall-pass-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/this-too-shall-pass-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This Too Shall Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will it pass?<\/p>\n<p>I count the moments but the same voices scream<\/p>\n<p>at night, keeping me anxious and afraid of tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>The seconds tick by as my mind runs ragged<\/p>\n<p>with fear and anticipation of the very worst scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>My dad always said, &#8220;This too shall pass&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>meaning the bad things<\/p>\n<p>but it also means the good things.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when times were much better and I was<\/p>\n<p>flying with my family to a happy vacation &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a nagging fear came into my mind that this too shall pass:<\/p>\n<p>the good times &#8211; I gulped my pinot grigio,<\/p>\n<p>slammed my eyelids together and thought<\/p>\n<p>that I&#8217;d better live in the moment and enjoy<\/p>\n<p>the present for all it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>Though those good days are gone, and the ones that bring<\/p>\n<p>pain now linger &#8211; but they too will pass.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73655\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/london-telephone-booth-long-exposure-lights-6618-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will it pass? I count the moments but the same voices scream at night, keeping me anxious and afraid of tomorrow? The seconds tick by as my mind runs ragged with fear and anticipation of the very worst scenarios. My dad always said, &#8220;This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94860","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\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95255,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94860\/revisions\/95255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}