{"id":112194,"date":"2022-06-25T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112194"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:41:34","slug":"the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"The phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">I don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to forget a face<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">But you could be surprised by one<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">A long passed relative staring back at you<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">As you mindlessly flip through your digital albums<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Expecting memories of trips past or saved recipes but<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Seeing instead your ancestors looking on<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Remembering how you taught them things<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Like what the Internet was<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">And how you pretended to love meat when they cooked you <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Cheeseburgers <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">How she painted and sculpted every day<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">But only portraits of long dead authoresses<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Or cats with human faces<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">While he peddled rigged arcade games in giant warehouses<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">And gave you porcelain dolls and monkeys that played piano on strings <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">All of this comes back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">With a swipe on a screen <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">As you looked for what to make for dinner<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to forget a face But you could be surprised by one A long passed relative staring back at you As you mindlessly flip through your digital albums Expecting memories of trips past or saved recipes but Seeing instead your ancestors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112194","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\/4740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112303,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112194\/revisions\/112303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}