{"id":5494,"date":"2026-10-02T15:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:41:37","slug":"sweet-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"sweet pea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It rained hard all night<br>every time I woke<br>it was pelting the window<br>and now with it being October, it feels slightly different<br>not a nourishing kind of rain<br>more the kind that adds<br>to<br>decay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>inside it kind of feels<br>like my heart has developed a slow<br>steady<br>drip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but more like a tear<br>that falls<br>soft and<br>silent<br>the ones you might barely<br>notice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or like that small pointy bit<br>at the bottom of it, you know <br>like when we draw the shape of a heart<br>like that point has been snagged on a piece of<br>splintered floor board<br>trampled under foot,<br>or completely torn off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>outside noise is once again<br>thunderous<br>yet one more disgusting display comes to light<br>and far too many of us<br>can feel the bruises<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>one more assault<br>where you will invite many<br>and not one<br><strong>NOT ONE<\/strong><br>will report it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>brush it aside, clean it all up<br>no real need after all,<br>to<br>sully<br>his promising future<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>makes one so angry<br>and so<br>weary<br>and my god, your god&#8230; ANYBODY&#8217;S GOD<br>do tell me<br>how do we prevent<br>the decomposition<br>of humanity<br><br>I just don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>out for my walk<br>clouds fully close in again<br>taking most all colour<br>from the skies<br><br>rain continues to threaten<br><br>heartening I guess,<br>to have noticed a wet heart shape on the bathmat<br>this morning, beside the dog<br>and on my way back home<br>to spot the very <br>last<br>of the<br>sweet peas <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>faint reminders&#8230;  <br>I guess \u2665<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It rained hard all nightevery time I wokeit was pelting the windowand now with it being October, it feels slightly differentnot a nourishing kind of rainmore the kind that addstodecay inside it kind of feelslike my heart has developed a&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5494\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[446,250,223,74,85],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inthiswritersgarden","tag-measaflower","tag-noticelife","tag-toyouthisday","tag-writelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}