{"id":5908,"date":"2021-09-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2021-09-01T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:58:32","slug":"poem-if-i-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/04\/poem-if-i-could\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: If I Could"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If I could describe love, the dictionary would hate me for knowing so many words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hopeless romantic would be left speechless over my word placement. A love song would have no match for my melody.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I could describe love, fairytales would be left without magic. Completely tasteless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;A painter\u2019s canvas would be left white, no color would be too bright or too powerful to paint anything. A puzzle with all its pieces would still be incomplete.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I could describe love, he\u2019d know that this isn\u2019t the first poem dedicated to him. He\u2019d know that a dictionary would still know more words than me and a puzzle would always be complete with all its pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love would know that poetry is my only love language, and that describing love would describe him. Endless poems like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could describe love, the dictionary would hate me for knowing so many words.&nbsp; A hopeless romantic would be left speechless over my word&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[223],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":223,"user_id":80,"is_guest":0,"slug":"alma-perez","display_name":"Alma Perez","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/a69f92fe30dca784dd6efcae31d1a624.jpg?ver=1778637593","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}