{"id":10061,"date":"2023-10-22T23:19:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T23:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2023-11-26T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:26:31","slug":"the-person-i-used-to-be-by-richard-ledue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-person-i-used-to-be-by-richard-ledue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Person I Used To Be by Richard LeDue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10063 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The-Person-I-Used-To-Be-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Person I Used To Be<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Richard LeDue<\/p>\n<p>3 AM musings<br \/>\nsmelled of desperation,<br \/>\nwhile unicorns sniffed dreams<br \/>\nhidden behind my open eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Extra maple cookies<br \/>\nhelped the night<br \/>\nseem less like black coffee<br \/>\ngone cold.<\/p>\n<p>My computer keyboard singing<br \/>\na ten dollar poem<br \/>\nthat died as easily<br \/>\nas someone in their sleep.<\/p>\n<p>This was my defeat,<br \/>\nclean like a blank page<br \/>\nand practical as waking up<br \/>\nat a sensible hour.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Richard LeDue (he\/him) is the author of eight books of poetry. His work has appeared in the Eunioa Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Briefly Zine, and other publications, both online and in print. His latest book, \u201cSecondhand Salvation,\u201d was released from Alien Buddha Press in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard LeDue (he\/him) is the author of eight books of poetry. His work has appeared in the Eunioa Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Briefly Zine, and other publications, both online and in print<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,439,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems-about-life","category-poems-about-truth","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}