{"id":43,"date":"2014-01-23T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T22:42:44","slug":"43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"The Sacrifice of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look in your eyes and see what has changed<br \/>\nAnd see how it tears you apart<br \/>\nBy no effort of mine but the passing of time<br \/>\nA crack at the base of your heart<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s up for debate the onslaught of fate<br \/>\nAnd how it has changed us now<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;re nowhere near a place we can cheer<br \/>\nOr a place with some peace somehow<\/p>\n<p>You tell me a truth that seems so aloof<br \/>\nAnd is filled with inspirational hope<br \/>\nI want to believe that you truly perceive<br \/>\nA future defined by this tempting scope<br \/>\nBut your presence so near sure seems to appear<br \/>\nTo suggest something just out of time<br \/>\nYour smile is close but what I need the most<br \/>\nIs your soul, your heart, and your mind<\/p>\n<p>Now I do not suggest that our lives are a mess<br \/>\nAnd that our hearts are destined to fail<br \/>\nNor that our choices made have been proven to fade<br \/>\nOur hopes into an intemporal jail<br \/>\nInstead I believe that the longing we conceive<br \/>\nRaises us up to an immodest fate<br \/>\nThe sacrifice of love to a fate up above<br \/>\nIn the end is our intertwined state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look in your eyes and see what has changed And see how it tears you apart By no effort of mine but the passing of time A crack at the base of your heart It&#8217;s up for debate the onslaught of fate And how it has changed us now But we&#8217;re nowhere near a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sacrifice of Love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mylifeforetold.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}