{"id":109408,"date":"2022-06-25T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109408"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:35:48","slug":"poem-4-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-4-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 4. 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Cooing Cooing, he <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">died last year from that bad flu.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Church says I need to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">marry again, but I have<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">vegetables growing <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">fruit trees bursting out, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">a hog, goats, chickens and eggs,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">a roof and a floor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">and milk for my two babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">I barter for the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">field work and the heavy work.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Mama does the laundry.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Ruth in the Old Testiment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">did it. I will do it, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Cooing Cooing dove<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">in the kitchen rafters say<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">Love is just a hard<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">day&#8217;s work for the right reasons.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">He died last year, but I lived.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220625_061812_678.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooing Cooing, he died last year from that bad flu. Church says I need to marry again, but I have vegetables growing fruit trees bursting out, a hog, goats, chickens and eggs, a roof and a floor and milk for my two babies. I barter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109408","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115520,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109408\/revisions\/115520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}