{"id":112684,"date":"2022-06-25T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112684"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:11:20","slug":"when-were-older-hour-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/when-were-older-hour-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"When We’re Older – Hour Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is what I hope for us: <\/span>
\n<\/span>We\u2019re 70 years old, sitting <\/span>
\n<\/span>On a park bench that overlooks<\/span>
\n<\/span>Where you first proposed to me. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Reflecting.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>We\u2019ve made it through so much<\/span>
\n<\/span>Pain and strife, struggled and <\/span>
\n<\/span>Fought through demons and grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

We faced battles so fierce, we<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sit there and laugh looking back,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Because how did we do it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But we did make it.<\/span>
\n<\/span>The kids, the house, the careers.<\/span>
\n<\/span>All of it together, and here<\/span>
\n<\/span>We sit after all this time,<\/span>
\n<\/span>In love as we\u2019ve ever been.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re happy. Lives full to the brim.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We made it through, and we won. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is what I hope for us: We\u2019re 70 years old, sitting On a park bench that overlooks Where you first proposed to me. Reflecting. We\u2019ve made it through so much Pain and strife, struggled and Fought through demons and grief. We faced battles so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112684","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112694,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112684\/revisions\/112694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}