{"id":10151,"date":"2023-12-27T04:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/everything-dont-carry-the-one-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T07:12:09","slug":"everything-dont-carry-the-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/everything-dont-carry-the-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want you to be my mistress for a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to carry the weight of the world with you,<br>or perpetually and publicly rearrange life\u2019s building blocks<br>with a goal in mind.<br><br>That would be a waste of magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to sneak into your apartment when there is a blackout,<br>where you have lit candles and wait for me,<br>naked under a blanket,<br>our bodies greet each other with a warm shiver,<br>refugees from the dutiful, the routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We preserve our sense of wonder as if it is life itself,<br>We will not get in line and march,<br>We will not waste the magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want you to be my mistress for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to carry the weight of the world with you,<br \/>\nor perpetually and publicly rearrange life\u2019s building blocks<br \/>\nwith a goal in mind.<br \/>\nThat would be a waste of magic.<br \/>\nI want to sneak into your apartment when there is a blackout,<br \/>\nwhere you have lit candles and wait for me,<br \/>\nnaked under a blanket,<br \/>\nour bodies greet each other with a warm shiver,<br \/>\nrefugees from the dutiful, the routine.<\/p>\n<p>We preserve our sense of wonder as if it is life itself,<br \/>\nWe will not get in line and march,<br \/>\nWe will not waste the magic.<\/p>\n<p>-Craig Hordlow<br \/>\ncraighordlow.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mistress-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Mistress-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10160,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions\/10160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}