{"id":5673,"date":"2015-11-23T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2015-11-23T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T10:03:01","slug":"a-losing-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"A losing hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"poker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poker.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poker.jpg\" alt=\"poker\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">A losing hand<\/p>\n<p>Now we gamble on our love.<br \/>\nWe shared the feelings equally<br \/>\nand all bets are off.<br \/>\nI open with a fear<br \/>\nyou call my fear and raise an anger<br \/>\nso I lose this first round.<br \/>\nThen I bet a memory<br \/>\nyou call my bluff<br \/>\nand raise the forgetting<br \/>\nand I lose again.<br \/>\nI bet a question,<br \/>\nyou raise the silence<br \/>\nand do not win.<br \/>\nI bet the &#8220;I love you&#8221; ace<br \/>\nyour glance calls and raises<br \/>\nthe &#8220;I loved you&#8221; straight flush.<br \/>\nResigned I accept the defeat.<br \/>\n(Well, I still have an ace up my sleeve: the Hope!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 23rd of November 2015<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maria Magdalena Biela<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}