{"id":98910,"date":"2021-06-26T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98910"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:23:03","slug":"hour-15-yes-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-15-yes-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15: Yes\/No"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I could go back in time<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say \u201cno\u201d to you<\/span><\/p>\n

And who you told me I was<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was starved\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like an infant left<\/span><\/p>\n

With hungry skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would say \u201cyes\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to myself more often.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would rewrite\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The voices you left<\/span><\/p>\n

in my head<\/span><\/p>\n

who informed me\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that I was wrong<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I would rewrite\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the voices that said<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t deserve\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

a pleasurable life<\/span><\/p>\n

and the parts of my heart\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that believed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If I could go back in time<\/span><\/p>\n

I would ask you:<\/span><\/p>\n

Why you thought<\/span><\/p>\n

it was ever ok\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to call me that<\/span><\/p>\n

and who, at some point,<\/span><\/p>\n

had done the same<\/span><\/p>\n

to you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I could go back in time I would say \u201cno\u201d to you And who you told me I was When I was starved\u00a0 Like an infant left With hungry skin.   I would say \u201cyes\u201d\u00a0 to myself more often.   I would rewrite\u00a0 The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98910","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\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98913,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98910\/revisions\/98913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}