{"id":113421,"date":"2022-06-25T17:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113421"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:27:09","slug":"no-13-a-nomadic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-13-a-nomadic-life\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 13: A Nomadic Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>My family have been on the move\r\nEver since I can remember\r\nDuring my elementary grades\r\nWe moved every two years\r\nI attended five different schools\r\n\r\nWe lived modestly in housing projects\r\nDuplexes of blue or pink\r\nFloors of concrete, cinder block walls, and evap cooling\r\nOne bathroom, one or two bedrooms\r\nFor a family of two adults and five kids\r\n\r\nWe kids learned to be ready in a flash\r\nWhen my parents decided it was time to leave\r\nEven when we didn't want to, we had to go\r\nWhat else are children to do\r\nNo one wants to be left behind\r\n\r\nI have no childhood home or childhood friends\r\nI do remember them in my mind\r\nWhat some of their names were, what they looked like\r\nBut I never found any of them\r\nHow many served or died in Vietnam I'll never know\r\n\r\nMy teen years were no better\r\nDifferent towns, different high schools\r\nDifferent housing\r\nI began to think\r\n\"I can't wait to leave\"\r\n\r\nI left after high school\r\nAnd moved to the heartland\r\nBack to northern Arizona\r\nThen on to southern California\r\nUntil I enlisted in the Women's Army Corps\r\n\r\nStill moving around but with some purpose\r\nBasic training in Alabama, signal school in Georgia\r\nThen assigned to southern Arizona\r\nFinally reassigned to the Pentagon in Virginia\r\nWhere I finished my enlistment in 1973\r\n\r\nAfter Virginia I continued to move\r\nNew York, Missouri, Colorado\r\nBack to Arizona (for the final time)\r\nThen on to Florida, and now I have\r\nFound a home in northern California\r\n\r\nI am home<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family have been on the move Ever since I can remember During my elementary grades We moved every two years I attended five different schools We lived modestly in housing projects Duplexes of blue or pink Floors of concrete, cinder block walls, and evap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113909,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113421\/revisions\/113909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}