{"id":1415,"date":"2018-09-04T04:25:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:14","slug":"this-isnt-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/09\/04\/this-isnt-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t about you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/animation-black-blur-262297-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/animation-black-blur-262297-cropped-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you really think this poem is about you, go <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mQZmCJUSC6g\">listen<\/a> to some Carly Simon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn&#8217;t about you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You once told me<br \/>\nyour friendships<br \/>\nwere everything or nothing<\/p>\n<p>You said you were willing to take it all<br \/>\nit didn&#8217;t bother you<br \/>\nit didn&#8217;t phase you<br \/>\nso I started to give you it all<\/p>\n<p>You stopped talking<br \/>\nyou stopped communicating<br \/>\nunless it had something to do<br \/>\nwith you<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re busy<br \/>\nyou have to work<br \/>\nyou have a family<\/p>\n<p>You pulled back<br \/>\ncontinued your life<br \/>\nhung out with your friends<br \/>\njust as you had<br \/>\nbefore me<\/p>\n<p>It was all or nothing you said<br \/>\nit&#8217;s nothing now<br \/>\nyou weren&#8217;t willing to take it all<br \/>\nand now you are another scar on my heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you really think this poem is about you, go listen to some Carly Simon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poem"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}