{"id":98932,"date":"2021-06-26T23:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98932"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:27:08","slug":"just-say-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/just-say-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years old and full of life<br \/>\nFull of spice<br \/>\nFull of things not understood<br \/>\nFifteen years old and wished I had<br \/>\nJust said yes<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen years and feel so old<br \/>\nDecisions made<br \/>\nTime to leave home<br \/>\nCollege can wait I naively voiced<br \/>\nHow I wish I had just said yes<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two and one marriage down<br \/>\nNot what I expected and now<br \/>\nNot what I want<br \/>\nCome with me and we\u2019ll be fine<br \/>\nI should have just said yes<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four and wandering, wondering<br \/>\nWhich way should I go<br \/>\nPosters say to join up now<br \/>\nSee the world and learn a skill<br \/>\nWhy oh why didn\u2019t I just say yes<\/p>\n<p>Come home for a bit<br \/>\nThey said to me<br \/>\nFigure things out and then you\u2019ll see<br \/>\nA happier person you could be<br \/>\nAnd still I didn\u2019t say yes<\/p>\n<p>Forty years later and all alone<br \/>\nMistakes I\u2019ve made do not compare<br \/>\nTo living with a person who just couldn\u2019t care<br \/>\nWho wanted me to be a person I was not meant to be<br \/>\nWhy couldn\u2019t he have just said yes to me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years old and full of life Full of spice Full of things not understood Fifteen years old and wished I had Just said yes Eighteen years and feel so old Decisions made Time to leave home College can wait I naively voiced How I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98932","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98941,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98932\/revisions\/98941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}