{"id":97004,"date":"2021-06-26T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97004"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:20:24","slug":"true-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/true-self\/","title":{"rendered":"True Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My true self is an angel<\/p>\n<p>wrapped in joyous love.<\/p>\n<p>I catch a glimpse of her<\/p>\n<p>every now and then &#8211; she sings to me &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>and kisses me when I cry.<\/p>\n<p>She has carried me along many dark roads<\/p>\n<p>when no one else was around.<\/p>\n<p>In the mountains of monotony, she shines<\/p>\n<p>her diamond light so I will find her.<\/p>\n<p>But she never stays too long.<\/p>\n<p>How I wish we were one again:<\/p>\n<p>back before time defiled me and<\/p>\n<p>life separated me into two selves.<\/p>\n<p>So now I know who I really am and<\/p>\n<p>who I strive to be.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96872\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/betrayal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My true self is an angel wrapped in joyous love. I catch a glimpse of her every now and then &#8211; she sings to me &#8211; and kisses me when I cry. She has carried me along many dark roads when no one else was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97004","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=97004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97160,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97004\/revisions\/97160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}