{"id":113300,"date":"2022-06-25T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113300"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:01:04","slug":"poem-7-father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-7-father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 7: Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man gazes at his son<br \/>\nRemembering<br \/>\nThe words his father said to him:<br \/>\n\u2018You\u2019re a chip off the old block.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His son looks up, sensing him there<br \/>\n\u2018Pa?\u2019<br \/>\nOh, it\u2019s nothing, I was just thinking,<br \/>\nI used to sit like that too.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts turn to his father, again,<br \/>\nBloodied<br \/>\nHe limped up the porch stairs to hear \u2013<br \/>\n\u2018You\u2019re a fighter, just like me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Everybody tells him, that boy is your twin<br \/>\nYes,<br \/>\nHe is my golden boy, of course I\u2019m proud<br \/>\nThe apple didn\u2019t fall far from the tree.<\/p>\n<p>My father said much the same thing,<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nThen I grew, and changed, and left<br \/>\nAnd my father\u2019s pride left too.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I wonder, as I look at you<br \/>\nWill<br \/>\nI love you, when you are grown,<br \/>\nAnd no longer the image of me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man gazes at his son Remembering The words his father said to him: \u2018You\u2019re a chip off the old block.\u2019 His son looks up, sensing him there \u2018Pa?\u2019 Oh, it\u2019s nothing, I was just thinking, I used to sit like that too. Thoughts turn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5129],"class_list":["post-113300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022hour7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113300","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\/4348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113330,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113300\/revisions\/113330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}