{"id":109467,"date":"2022-06-25T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109467"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:25:38","slug":"playing-piano-for-the-last-time-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/playing-piano-for-the-last-time-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing piano for the last time (Ukraine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the chaos and cruelty of war,<br \/>\namid the bombings, the fires,<br \/>\namid the desperate attempts to flee,<br \/>\namid the broken glass, smashed pots,<br \/>\nabandoned belongings,<br \/>\nthe woman uncovers her beloved piano,<br \/>\nwipes the dark dust from the keys,<br \/>\nand then,<br \/>\nfor the last time,<br \/>\nthe very last time,<br \/>\nshe sits down in her coat and hat and<br \/>\nshe plays,<br \/>\nher hands floating across the keys,<br \/>\ncreating notes of hope and peace<br \/>\nto fill the shattered home that<br \/>\nshe now must leave behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the chaos and cruelty of war, amid the bombings, the fires, amid the desperate attempts to flee, amid the broken glass, smashed pots, abandoned belongings, the woman uncovers her beloved piano, wipes the dark dust from the keys, and then, for the last time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109467","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109528,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109467\/revisions\/109528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}