{"id":100082,"date":"2021-06-27T02:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100082"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:05:20","slug":"living-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/living-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s garden with rabbits eating her plants, my grandfather waking up at<\/p>\n<p>five in the morning every day to make his social rounds.<\/p>\n<p>A handmade first communion dress, magnolia trees in bloom,<\/p>\n<p>unwrapped Christmas presents, stepping on a metal rake and lying<\/p>\n<p>in a tub as my foot bled<\/p>\n<p>My father playing chess in every spare moment, how I could here him thinking about chess<\/p>\n<p>when he was on the phone with me.<\/p>\n<p>These phantoms of moments and people dissolved<\/p>\n<p>the way I imagine losing a finger might feel as if it&#8217;s still there when it really is not,<\/p>\n<p>is how they linger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s garden with rabbits eating her plants, my grandfather waking up at five in the morning every day to make his social rounds. A handmade first communion dress, magnolia trees in bloom, unwrapped Christmas presents, stepping on a metal rake and lying in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100142,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100082\/revisions\/100142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}