{"id":102773,"date":"2021-06-27T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102773"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:20:43","slug":"home-thepoetrymarathon-prompttwentyfour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/home-thepoetrymarathon-prompttwentyfour\/","title":{"rendered":"Home #thepoetrymarathon #prompttwentyfour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The house is in need of paint, father,<\/p>\n<p>plaster peels off the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The verandah stares vacant and blank,<\/p>\n<p>no life within its halls.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s just a house<\/em>, I said to myself<\/p>\n<p>as I passed down that road,<\/p>\n<p>just a house, abandoned and dark<\/p>\n<p>that once housed our souls.<\/p>\n<p>How can it then be,\u00a0<em>just a house?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought again as I gazed at it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the house where you died<\/p>\n<p>and the home where we lived.<\/p>\n<p>So do not laugh if you find me there<\/p>\n<p>gazing back in time and space<\/p>\n<p>there are houses and then there are houses<\/p>\n<p>not all of them broker peace.<\/p>\n<p>Taunt me not if I see my childhood<\/p>\n<p>etched on every parapet and sill<\/p>\n<p><em>I may grow in years but am none the wiser\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and this little girl needs you still.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house is in need of paint, father, plaster peels off the walls. The verandah stares vacant and blank, no life within its halls. It&#8217;s just a house, I said to myself as I passed down that road, just a house, abandoned and dark that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[4101,127,15,10],"class_list":["post-102773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-home-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102773","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102895,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102773\/revisions\/102895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}