{"id":98745,"date":"2021-06-26T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98745"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:16:19","slug":"rainy-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rainy-wedding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy wedding day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had already said yes<br \/>\nUnder the Brooklyn Bridge<br \/>\nA sunny day<br \/>\nWhere my face melted away<br \/>\nLeaving my hidden skin<br \/>\nUncovered<br \/>\nBeneath.<\/p>\n<p>We stood,<br \/>\nArguing<br \/>\nDrenched in rain<br \/>\nUnable to agree<br \/>\nAbout having kids<br \/>\nNow that the rings were dispersed<br \/>\nVows uttered.<\/p>\n<p>He asked if I wanted my key back.<\/p>\n<p>We drank instead<br \/>\nUntil 4 am<br \/>\nAnd Irish step danced<br \/>\nAnd drank more<br \/>\nAnd barely could got in the car home.<\/p>\n<p>Later<br \/>\nThe beatings<br \/>\nLater<br \/>\nMore drinking<br \/>\nLater<br \/>\nAbandoned<br \/>\nPregnant.<br \/>\nHomeless.<\/p>\n<p>One missed answer.<br \/>\nIt should have been yes.<\/p>\n<p>Do you just want your key back?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want me to turn and leave while we annul this mess?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>After a year I did get my life back.<br \/>\nSomewhat.<br \/>\nBut I never got<br \/>\nThat damn key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had already said yes Under the Brooklyn Bridge A sunny day Where my face melted away Leaving my hidden skin Uncovered Beneath. We stood, Arguing Drenched in rain Unable to agree About having kids Now that the rings were dispersed Vows uttered. He asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98745","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98863,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98745\/revisions\/98863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}