{"id":107307,"date":"2022-06-25T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107307"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:47:00","slug":"hour-one-memorial-for-the-family-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-one-memorial-for-the-family-cabin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One: Memorial For The Family Cabin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial For The Family Cabin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Summer \u2013 no baptism<\/p>\n<p>into cold water at the end of the dock.<\/p>\n<p>No yearly ritual of swimming<\/p>\n<p>to the buoy and back, freeing<\/p>\n<p>my dormant muscles from winter\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>confines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Summer \u2013 we have memories,<\/p>\n<p>a haphazard tumble of photographs,<\/p>\n<p>and a signed real estate agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snapshot: five kids posed on the front of Dad\u2019s boat.<\/p>\n<p>Four boys surrounding one girl. Our ages range from smiling<\/p>\n<p>school age to grumpy adolescent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snapshot: birthday party for our Irish Grammie,<\/p>\n<p>toothless grin\u00a0as she blows out the candles<\/p>\n<p>celebrating 80-some years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>Renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Absolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial For The Family Cabin &nbsp; This Summer \u2013 no baptism into cold water at the end of the dock. No yearly ritual of swimming to the buoy and back, freeing my dormant muscles from winter\u2019s confines. &nbsp; This Summer \u2013 we have memories, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107307","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\/990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112372,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107307\/revisions\/112372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}