{"id":111449,"date":"2022-06-25T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111449"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T21:26:30","slug":"hour-six-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-six-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Chance (Hour 6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t encountered the word<br \/>\nmentor when you encircled me<br \/>\nwith words that propelled me<br \/>\nto unthought-of heights<\/p>\n<p>but in my mind<br \/>\nyou were<br \/>\nsuffocating me<\/p>\n<p>and now I&#8217;m sad<br \/>\nthat you&#8217;re gone<br \/>\nfar from here<\/p>\n<p>I cry still<br \/>\neven as I know<br \/>\nspilt milk<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t be collected<\/p>\n<p>I wish I hadn&#8217;t been naive<br \/>\nI wish I had known better<\/p>\n<p>I admire you still<br \/>\nand in my mind&#8217;s eye<br \/>\nI see you scouting the shelves<br \/>\nor seated studiously<br \/>\nlike a college boy<br \/>\nin the campus library<\/p>\n<p>who would have thought<br \/>\nthat this ordinary man here<br \/>\nstudying like the rest of us<br \/>\nwas a college professor<br \/>\nwith a doctorate in the bag?<\/p>\n<p>I admire you still, my Dr.<br \/>\nhoping our paths cross again<br \/>\nif Christ tarries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t encountered the word mentor when you encircled me with words that propelled me to unthought-of heights but in my mind you were suffocating me and now I&#8217;m sad that you&#8217;re gone far from here I cry still even as I know spilt milk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449","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\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123586,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111449\/revisions\/123586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}