{"id":111012,"date":"2022-06-25T14:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111012"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:16:28","slug":"prompt-6-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-6-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #6: letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-111056\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail-300x175.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail-1024x597.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail-768x448.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail-1536x896.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/air-mail.jpeg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air mail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">You will write me no letters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There will be no ghostly conversations from beyond<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">pale or not. It\u2019s been weeks now, and still<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">you are still, my love. Silent. Quiet. Still.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No movement in the darkness<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">other than simple night terrors<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">loneliness and empty rooms and quiet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is so very quiet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No generators. No laboured breathing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No white noise of necessary ~<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the machineries of life as we the aging<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">know it. None of what was then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if you wrote me a letter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know what you would say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get on with it. Move forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is never enough time, love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I agree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was never enough time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air mail &nbsp; You will write me no letters. There will be no ghostly conversations from beyond pale or not. It\u2019s been weeks now, and still you are still, my love. Silent. Quiet. Still. No movement in the darkness other than simple night terrors loneliness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111012","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111066,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111012\/revisions\/111066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}