{"id":109885,"date":"2022-06-25T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109885"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:34:30","slug":"2022-poetry-marathon-poem-5-grandpas-satchel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-poetry-marathon-poem-5-grandpas-satchel\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa&#8217;s Satchel (2022 Poem 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gandpa&#8217;s Satchel<\/p>\n<p>Resting in Grandpa&#8217;s faded hardback chair<br \/>\nSunflower swaying as a warm breeze<br \/>\nGently blows through your long greying hair<br \/>\nSetting knitting down upon swollen knees<\/p>\n<p>I offer up a piece of cheddar cheese<br \/>\nTrying to fill the silent space around my grief<br \/>\nYou give my cold hand a gentle squeeze<br \/>\nI sip from my wine glass in disbelief <\/p>\n<p>Sun-baked pavement buzzing like hard-at-work bees<br \/>\nScratching a nail in the earth he said was blessed<br \/>\nHere beside his favourite old oak trees<br \/>\nInside this satchel Grandpa&#8217;s ashes finally rest<\/p>\n<p>(Prompt: Use at least 5 words\/phrases: hardback, sunflower, knitting, cheddar cheese, space, wine glass, pavement, nail, oak, satchel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandpa&#8217;s Satchel Resting in Grandpa&#8217;s faded hardback chair Sunflower swaying as a warm breeze Gently blows through your long greying hair Setting knitting down upon swollen knees I offer up a piece of cheddar cheese Trying to fill the silent space around my grief You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4880],"class_list":["post-109885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885","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\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109885"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111344,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885\/revisions\/111344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}