{"id":107727,"date":"2022-06-25T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107727"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:42:47","slug":"promises-to-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/promises-to-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises to keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had promises to keep<\/p>\n<p>but instead regarded Robert Frost,<\/p>\n<p>who stopped his horse to watch the woods<\/p>\n<p>fill up with snow.<\/p>\n<p>I paused, too,<\/p>\n<p>from time to time<\/p>\n<p>while those around me<\/p>\n<p>grew impatient<\/p>\n<p>waiting for me to go again.<\/p>\n<p>Harness bells jingled in my brain<\/p>\n<p>reminding me that time was not my own.<\/p>\n<p>I had promises to keep.<\/p>\n<p>I kept as many as I could,<\/p>\n<p>failed at some<\/p>\n<p>but rarely stopped to watch the snow.<\/p>\n<p>I stop more often now<\/p>\n<p>as my journey shortens with age.<\/p>\n<p>I make no promises<\/p>\n<p>to anyone but me.<\/p>\n<p>And I have promises to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Robert Frost, \u201cStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u201d from\u00a0<em>The Poetry of Robert Frost<\/em>. Copyright 1923, \u00a9 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had promises to keep but instead regarded Robert Frost, who stopped his horse to watch the woods fill up with snow. I paused, too, from time to time while those around me grew impatient waiting for me to go again. Harness bells jingled in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107727","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111448,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107727\/revisions\/111448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}