{"id":111214,"date":"2022-06-25T14:26:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111214"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:26:19","slug":"dear-harvey-hour-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dear-harvey-hour-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Harvey (Hour Six)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Harvey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled to course through your veins<\/p>\n<p>and down to your hands onto what looks a lot<\/p>\n<p>like typewriter keys but I know is something else.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m your grandfather Harry<\/p>\n<p>and you were named for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You would think I\u2019d be marveling<\/p>\n<p>at so much that has changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t use a lot of words because<\/p>\n<p>all you need to know is simple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>Especially, honor your father and mother.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I taught your mother by example.<\/p>\n<p>I always had a flower in my lapel<\/p>\n<p>and gave the best advice I could<\/p>\n<p>to those that sought me out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But of course the Great Depression<\/p>\n<p>taught me a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what can I tell you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life can move in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n<p>When you can, try to understand<\/p>\n<p>that it\u2019s not what you do<\/p>\n<p>but how you do it that will<\/p>\n<p>be your legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Dear Harvey &nbsp; I am thrilled to course through your veins and down to your hands onto what looks a lot like typewriter keys but I know is something else. &nbsp; I\u2019m your grandfather Harry and you were named for me. &nbsp; You&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111214","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111227,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111214\/revisions\/111227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}