{"id":111987,"date":"2022-06-25T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111987"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:43:01","slug":"always-need-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/always-need-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Always need my friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will always need my friends.<br \/>\nCommunity, unity, diversity<br \/>\nThese are ingredients for wholeness in life.<br \/>\nCommunity is the glue of our crafts of togetherness.<br \/>\nIt holds us accountable for our behavior when no-one&#8217;s looking. <\/p>\n<p>Showing up for your life means you support the festivities.<br \/>\nBe there for someone else besides always trying to do your thang.<br \/>\nI love being with my people our diversity in talents and gifts bring<br \/>\nthe laughter and fun.<\/p>\n<p>These are my peeps we make great music.<br \/>\nIt of us have a part to sing remembering to stay in our own lane.<br \/>\nCelebrating someone else mild stone is the backbone of unity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Calling all black people come on in Black people.&#8221;<br \/>\nI hear the call by showing up for the party. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nHowever, I love when people are excited to see me coming.<\/p>\n<p>When are having a good time telling fables in rhymes.<br \/>\nGas prices are high, but so is the thrill of being among friends.<br \/>\nCommunity will keep you sane when things in solitude are not going your way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will always need my friends. Community, unity, diversity These are ingredients for wholeness in life. Community is the glue of our crafts of togetherness. It holds us accountable for our behavior when no-one&#8217;s looking. Showing up for your life means you support the festivities&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111987","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\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112388,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111987\/revisions\/112388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}