{"id":110495,"date":"2022-06-25T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110495"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:04:17","slug":"letter-from-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/letter-from-ancestor\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Ancestor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Ancestor<\/p>\n<p>My dear<br \/>\nI am long gone<br \/>\nbut I wish you well<br \/>\ndo not hurt the pigeons<br \/>\nlet the mongoose live in the bushes<br \/>\nAh&#8230;do you water the plants I planted?<br \/>\nthe gulmohar, the deodar and the cedar<br \/>\nthe mango bears fruits now&#8230;<br \/>\ngive some to the children<br \/>\nthe old neighbor&#8217;s health<br \/>\nbut a faltering pain<br \/>\nvisit you must<\/p>\n<p>My dear<br \/>\none day when you will be long gone<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll understand the small nothings<br \/>\nthen write a letter to your young ones<br \/>\nwishing them well in life<br \/>\njust like how I wrote<br \/>\nlife goes on<\/p>\n<p>Hour 6<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"atwho-inserted\" data-atwho-at-query=\"@vare\">@varenyas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Ancestor My dear I am long gone but I wish you well do not hurt the pigeons let the mongoose live in the bushes Ah&#8230;do you water the plants I planted? the gulmohar, the deodar and the cedar the mango bears fruits now&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110495","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\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111729,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110495\/revisions\/111729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}