{"id":1645,"date":"2011-08-12T02:42:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2011-08-12T02:42:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T01:42:22","slug":"give-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Give Me a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not blame me for dieing.<br \/>\nDeath is not a crime,<br \/>\nand life is not a crime scene.<br \/>\nThat I aged is inconvenient.<br \/>\nThat my success rests<br \/>\non a mountain of small failures.<br \/>\nThat my intelligence<br \/>\nwas never up to my understanding,<br \/>\nso I could never quite explain myself.<br \/>\nI took my place in line<br \/>\nunsure of where I was<br \/>\nor where I was going.<br \/>\nShared as much as I could with others.<br \/>\nI truly wanted to give<br \/>\nmore than I got,<br \/>\nand wound up<br \/>\nhopelessly loving,<br \/>\nhopelessly caring,<br \/>\nand believing<br \/>\nthe only things that exist are miracles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not blame me for dieing. Death is not a crime, and life is not a crime scene. That I aged is inconvenient. That my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1645\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give Me a Break<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}