{"id":20,"date":"2018-06-23T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-09T02:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T02:36:18","slug":"plato-by-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/plato-by-proxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato by Proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP Stylebook has no guidelines about how to write a letter to someone in rehab.  <br \/> I must have put pen to paper sixteen times before I could even write the letters <br \/> that make up your name. <\/p>\n<p> How did we get here? <br \/> From nights spent lying in your bed <br \/> closing our eyes together instead  <br \/> of waking up alone, <br \/> to this barely speaking <br \/> always fleeting <br \/> semblance of sentences.<\/p>\n<p> Are you any more of a man than you were <br \/> in those moments? <\/p>\n<p> Am I any less of a friend of  <br \/> than I ever was?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP Stylebook has no guidelines about how to write a letter to someone in rehab. I must have put pen to paper sixteen times before I could even write the letters that make up your name. How did we get here? From nights spent lying in your bed closing our eyes together instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayleewrites.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}