{"id":495,"date":"2019-01-22T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:08:43","slug":"half-full-or-half-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/half-full-or-half-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Full or Half Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<p>I have a dilemma of sorts, and it has all to do with the heart,<br \/>\nI have looked up and down for a smile, but that is only the start.<\/p>\n<p>In the smile I looked for a truth, as I couldn\u2019t stand any more lies,<br \/>\nI asked for the honest truth, but I now feel it will be my demise.<\/p>\n<p>I have found this smile and the honest truth in you,<br \/>\nBut I find it is does at times make me feel so blue.<\/p>\n<p>For now I cannot decide if I want the truth to be so bold,<br \/>\nTo know that I am not the \u201cONE\u201d, you want for all time, to hold.<\/p>\n<p>Can I live with your heart being half full, and you love me for now,<br \/>\nOr should I see that it is half empty, as you tell me I am not right somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Do I really want to live again in ignorant bliss, like I have in the past?<br \/>\nNot knowing I am not the \u201cONE\u201d, then have the truth hit with a sudden blast.<\/p>\n<p>Or do I just want to keep being told that in your heart I am just a guest.<br \/>\nThe truth is in this dilemma I know not what will hurt less.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Poem Style &#8211; Rhyme \/ Poem Catagory &#8211; Love<br \/>\nWritten by Lady Kathleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dilemma of sorts, and it has all to do with the heart, I have looked up and down for a smile, but that is only the start. In the smile I looked for a truth, as I couldn\u2019t stand any more lies, I asked for the honest truth, but I now feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,5],"tags":[79,164,179,338,357,438,629,694,712,738],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-rhyme-style","tag-bliss","tag-demise","tag-dilemma","tag-heart-love","tag-honest-truth","tag-love","tag-rhyme-style","tag-smile","tag-sorts","tag-sudden-blast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/dreams.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}