{"id":265,"date":"2012-02-22T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=265"},"modified":"2012-03-27T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:11:17","slug":"dear-whoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/02\/22\/dear-whoever\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAR, WHOEVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/anais\/\">ANAIS<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Let there be happiness,<br \/>\nLet the tears from my face fall for the last time.<br \/>\nI bowed my head again tonight,<br \/>\nJust like I do every night.<br \/>\nI cry, trying to grasp my breath,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the same routine I do every day.<br \/>\nWhy pray to someone I don\u2019t believe in?<br \/>\nWho is this person I\u2019m speaking to?<br \/>\nI close my eyes and whisper into the darkness.<br \/>\nMy hands clenched to the side of my bed.<br \/>\nAll the bad things begin to rush through my head.<br \/>\nPlease, I pray, let him come home sober.<br \/>\nThe one thing I always wish for,<br \/>\nIs the thing I know that will never happen.<br \/>\nPlease, whoever you are.<br \/>\nAllow me to become stronger.<br \/>\nDistract me from addiction.<br \/>\nLet me smile for joy and not pain.<br \/>\nLet me know she\u2019s okay and she\u2019s still here;<br \/>\nTell her and Grandpa I said, \u201cI love you.\u201d<br \/>\nTell my twin siblings I wish I could have met them.<br \/>\nShow light onto my brother before he turns into me.<br \/>\nKeep those who are in danger safe.<br \/>\nStop the pain from yesterday.<br \/>\nHelp me forget the enemies and scars from the past.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know who to talk too, so I\u2019ll pray to you.<br \/>\nWhoever you are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/anais\/\">ANAIS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Let there be happiness,<br \/> Let the tears from my face fall for the last time.<br \/> I bowed my head again tonight,<br \/> Just like I do every night.<br \/> I cry, trying to grasp my breath,<br \/> It\u2019s the same routine I do every day.<br \/> Why pray to someone [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79487],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-anais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}