{"id":95153,"date":"2021-06-26T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95153"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:02:05","slug":"no-9-the-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/no-9-the-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 9 &#8211; The Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No. 9 &#8211; The Letter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Nandhini G. Natarajan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw the letter<\/p>\n<p>you had written in secret,<\/p>\n<p>night after night,<\/p>\n<p>fueled by alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>All the words I begged<\/p>\n<p>to hear,<\/p>\n<p>all the tenderness<\/p>\n<p>I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Pages of it,<\/p>\n<p>the outpouring.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly the way<\/p>\n<p>I remembered<\/p>\n<p>thirty-three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I finally saw you again,<\/p>\n<p>the one I thought<\/p>\n<p>was lost.<\/p>\n<p>And then<\/p>\n<p>I saw the name.<\/p>\n<p>It was not mine.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else,<\/p>\n<p>much younger.<\/p>\n<p>How clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 9 &#8211; The Letter By Nandhini G. Natarajan \u00a0 I saw the letter you had written in secret, night after night, fueled by alcohol. All the words I begged to hear, all the tenderness I wanted. Pages of it, the outpouring. Exactly the way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95153","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\/2873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95164,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95153\/revisions\/95164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}