{"id":110438,"date":"2022-06-25T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110438"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:34:56","slug":"stairsteps-prompt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/stairsteps-prompt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairsteps Prompt 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They came out of the shack that stood at the dip of the draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Albert first, though he grumbled about going to school at 15,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">then Benjamin, named for her brother who\u2019d died in the war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Caroline, who had green eyes that strangers noticed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dancing Deborah as she liked to be called, followed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">then Edward, for her husband\u2019s pa who\u2019d died at the bottom of the mine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and Frank, who liked to play dress up and hid an old baby doll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She stood at the end of the line and held squirming Georgia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with one hand on the swell of her belly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The postmistress took the picture which would hang on the wall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came out of the shack that stood at the dip of the draw. Albert first, though he grumbled about going to school at 15, then Benjamin, named for her brother who\u2019d died in the war, and Caroline, who had green eyes that strangers noticed,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110438","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\/1339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110474,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110438\/revisions\/110474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}