{"id":99024,"date":"2021-06-26T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99024"},"modified":"2021-07-02T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T06:43:10","slug":"15-shouldve-said-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/15-shouldve-said-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"15. Should&#8217;ve Said Yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have said yes&#8230; kissed more girls<br \/>\nand more boys who looked like girls<br \/>\nand more girls who looked like boys.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes<br \/>\nto not getting married.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes to college earlier<br \/>\nand yes to touring even earlier than that.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes to Juilliard.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes<br \/>\nto American Records<br \/>\nand yes to Willie K<\/p>\n<p>and yes to the extra scoops of ice cream<br \/>\nthat drifted in and out of my life<\/p>\n<p>and yes to more random encounters<br \/>\nwith beautiful strangers.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes<br \/>\nto my glorious big belly<br \/>\nand luscious round ass<\/p>\n<p>yes to more braless days.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes<br \/>\nto honing deaf ears<br \/>\nfor other people&#8217;s critical thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes<br \/>\nto saying no to fear.<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_173919_079.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>I should have said yes to permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have said yes&#8230; kissed more girls and more boys who looked like girls and more girls who looked like boys. I should have said yes to not getting married. I should have said yes to college earlier and yes to touring even earlier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103934,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99024\/revisions\/103934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}