{"id":113240,"date":"2022-06-25T16:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113240"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:38:59","slug":"confirming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/confirming\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is manna from cyber-heaven, crystalizing<br \/>\nthe adage \u2018thank G-d for unanswered prayers\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A daily spin through various forms of online socializing<br \/>\ncovers a wide range of connections; business, personal<br \/>\nold friends, new associates, friends-of-friends, old lovers<\/p>\n<p>Those you have joined in moving back to \u2018friend\u2019 stage<br \/>\nothers part of a friends circle you are both bonded to<\/p>\n<p>Those you did backwards: friend never in the equation<br \/>\neven though the \u2018lovers\u2019 part was definitely memorable<\/p>\n<p>Their current foibles, unseemly politics, general ickiness?<br \/>\nSocial media is manna from heaven, reinforcing each \u2018nope!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Those you have joined in moving back to \u2018friend\u2019 stage<br \/>\nseldom want to revisit more-than land \u2013 blithely utilizing<br \/>\neye-roll emojis when a mutual makes pointed reminders<\/p>\n<p>G-d gets thanks for eschewing my prayers, proper praise<br \/>\ntoday really means\u2026there needs to be an emoji for that. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is manna from cyber-heaven, crystalizing the adage \u2018thank G-d for unanswered prayers\u2019 A daily spin through various forms of online socializing covers a wide range of connections; business, personal old friends, new associates, friends-of-friends, old lovers Those you have joined in moving back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5163,5185,5186],"class_list":["post-113240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour8","tag-2022-prompt-8","tag-2022-prompt-8-gigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113240","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113261,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113240\/revisions\/113261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}