{"id":471,"date":"2022-03-27T20:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2022-05-19T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:04:41","slug":"to-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"To My Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Won\u2019t you speak to me?<br><em>You didn\u2019t speak to us.<\/em><br>I couldn\u2019t then, can\u2019t you see?<br><em>You\u2019ve changed too much.<br>We cannot speak.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, I haven\u2019t changed at all.<br>All I am is all I\u2019ve been.<br>All I want is all I wanted \u2014<br>To talk of more than just what\u2019s wrong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With me, with others, or with my God;<br>To feel refreshed and not reprimanded;<br>To feel encouraged, inspired, and not dejected;<br>To feel loved, cherished, and not expected<br>To earn those pleasures through my subjection<br>To something which, through my acceptance,<br>Would rend my soul and erase my essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now if I could hear your voices,<br>And knew that you could hear mine too,<br>All I\u2019d want to say to you<br>Has nothing at all to do<br>With the choices that we each have made,<br>Our pining, our striving to persuade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I want to say, to show, to prove,<br>Is how deeply I will always, always<br>Love you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">October 29, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won\u2019t you speak to me?You didn\u2019t speak to us.I couldn\u2019t then, can\u2019t you see?You\u2019ve changed too much.We cannot speak. No, I haven\u2019t changed at all.All I am is all I\u2019ve been.All I want is all I wanted \u2014To talk of more than just what\u2019s wrong With me, with others, or with my God;To feel refreshed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[328,327,326,140,110,85,329,330,331],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-disappointed-parents","tag-family-feud","tag-family-trauma","tag-legalism","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-reconciliation","tag-religious-abuse","tag-religious-legality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}