{"id":9722,"date":"2015-06-13T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:25:43","slug":"a-shoulder-venting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-shoulder-venting\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shoulder, Venting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Needy friends&#8230;<br \/>\nDo you know what burdens you place upon me?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re always crying,<br \/>\n&#8220;We need, we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What are you good for&#8230;<br \/>\nYou always have too many individual issues<br \/>\nto ever listen to what I have going on.<br \/>\n&#8220;We NEED, WE NEED.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You never ask how my day is going&#8230;<br \/>\nWell, at least not with an open ear.<br \/>\nI have issues in life too.<br \/>\n&#8220;We need&#8230; we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should just walk away&#8230;<br \/>\nand let you face your problems on your own.<br \/>\nThink you would be able to handle that?<br \/>\n&#8220;We need! We need&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Selfish? Maybe&#8230;<br \/>\nbut I wish, just once,<br \/>\nthat you would care to know what troubles I am facing.<br \/>\n&#8220;We need! We need!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just suck it up&#8230; like always,<br \/>\nand continue to be your crying shoulder.<br \/>\nMaybe one day you&#8217;ll finally hear me cry,<br \/>\n&#8220;I need! I need!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>         Your Shoulder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Needy friends&#8230; Do you know what burdens you place upon me? You&#8217;re always crying, &#8220;We need, we need.&#8221; What are you good for&#8230; You always have too many individual issues to ever listen to what I have going on. &#8220;We NEED, WE NEED.&#8221; You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722","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\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9771,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/9771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}