{"id":109624,"date":"2022-06-25T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109624"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:19:05","slug":"ancestry-com-hour-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ancestry-com-hour-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestry.com, Hour Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p>When time trickles away<br \/>\nand my body is lost to it,<br \/>\none more soul among a trillion others<br \/>\nthat float freely in the ether,<br \/>\nwhat memory hand will snatch me back?<\/p>\n<p>To whom will my words speak?<\/p>\n<p>Will they be pressed between the pages<br \/>\nof a few obscure books<br \/>\non a dusty backroom bookshelf,<br \/>\nor laid away in the corner trunk<br \/>\nof a great granddaughter&#8217;s attic?<\/p>\n<p>Will a wondering descendant a century hence<br \/>\ncrack open crumbling pages<br \/>\nand marvel at the quaint turns of phrase,<br \/>\nas flowers from a long gone field?<\/p>\n<p>More likely I will survive<br \/>\nin bytes and bits,<br \/>\nemojis of a distant past<br \/>\nstrewn throughout a digital record,<br \/>\narchived, if I&#8217;m fortunate, annotated,<br \/>\nmy googled past laid bare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancestry.com When time trickles away and my body is lost to it, one more soul among a trillion others that float freely in the ether, what memory hand will snatch me back? To whom will my words speak? Will they be pressed between the pages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109624","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123436,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109624\/revisions\/123436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}