{"id":9935,"date":"2015-06-13T16:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:57:26","slug":"how-the-hell-do-i-know-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/how-the-hell-do-i-know-what-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Hell Do I Know What We Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the Hell Do I Know What We Need?<\/p>\n<p>I can only tell you what I need.<br \/>\nAnd you can tell me what you need.<br \/>\nTogether, we can say what we need.<br \/>\nHow\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>I need friends,<br \/>\neven the ones who don\u2019t always agree with me<br \/>\non the issues of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I need a home that\u2019s truly mine,<br \/>\nwith a garden and chickens.<br \/>\nRunning water and air conditioning are nice, too.<\/p>\n<p>I need my family<br \/>\nto know that I love them.<\/p>\n<p>I need people.<\/p>\n<p>I need dogs and cats,<br \/>\nmy four-legged family,<br \/>\nand the llamas and goats and donkeys<br \/>\ndown the road,<br \/>\nand the roadrunners and buntings and owls<br \/>\nin the trees along the creek.<\/p>\n<p>I need my man<br \/>\nfor as long as I can have him.<\/p>\n<p>And I need a purpose to be here<br \/>\neven if that purpose is to be<br \/>\na part of a community,<br \/>\na friend,<br \/>\nsomeone\u2019s family,<br \/>\nsomeone\u2019s home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Hell Do I Know What We Need? I can only tell you what I need. And you can tell me what you need. Together, we can say what we need. How\u2019s that? I need friends, even the ones who don\u2019t always agree with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}