{"id":111081,"date":"2022-06-25T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111081"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:32:54","slug":"hey-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hey-gal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Gal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember riding in my Chevy Nova<br \/>\nthrough downtown Traverse City<br \/>\nhow we blasted the Talking Heads<br \/>\nall the way down Front Street?<\/p>\n<p>How was it that we had<br \/>\nso much time in our lives<br \/>\nto just sit around talking<br \/>\nand drinking Labatts and smoking Camels?<\/p>\n<p>My kids are grown now<br \/>\nabout that age we were<br \/>\nwhen we became thick and thieves<br \/>\nand probably did illegal stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But we never got caught<br \/>\nand I hope they never do either<br \/>\nbut if they do, meh &#8211; I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nchalk it up to chance.<\/p>\n<p>We had it good for a while<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t we?<br \/>\nWe had our whole lives<br \/>\nahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>Now here we are.<br \/>\nAge found us both.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a mom, maybe a grandma soon<br \/>\nand you &#8211; how are you?<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 6: Write a letter to yourself from the perspective of someone who is no longer in your life.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember riding in my Chevy Nova through downtown Traverse City how we blasted the Talking Heads all the way down Front Street? How was it that we had so much time in our lives to just sit around talking and drinking Labatts and smoking Camels?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111081","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111310,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111081\/revisions\/111310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}