{"id":115450,"date":"2022-06-25T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115450"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:03:09","slug":"hour-eight-the-light-held-us-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-eight-the-light-held-us-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eight: The Light Held us in Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You sit there, the sun mounting<br \/>\na late afternoon offensive\u2014you<br \/>\nsitting stoically with your place<br \/>\nin the rank behind, what seems<br \/>\nnow to you anyway, to be a dugout,<br \/>\na trench, marking the place where he,<br \/>\nthe family cornerstone\u2014that\u2019s what<br \/>\nyou called him\u2014has been laid to rest<br \/>\nafter his final battle. This won\u2019t be<\/p>\n<p>your final battle. You sit in silence,<br \/>\nmind protected by dark glasses,<br \/>\nsoul protected by the dark leather-<br \/>\nbound, gilt-edged bible, clutched<br \/>\nto your chest, that nobody, but you<br \/>\nand him, bothered to read anymore.<br \/>\nStill, they who have no higher claim,<br \/>\nwant the precious book, as they<br \/>\ndo the watch, the ring, the car,<\/p>\n<p>the money, the house, the farm,<br \/>\nhis throne, now yours. Hypocrites, they<br \/>\npraise the sunlight: \u201cGod, sent his angels<br \/>\nto carry him home.\u201d You know this to be a<br \/>\na sign of the devil, scorching the earth<br \/>\nto make sure he is dead and gone. He<br \/>\nis gone, leaving you to hold the hand<br \/>\nof the women sitting beside you who<br \/>\nin another time knew and loved you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You sit there, the sun mounting a late afternoon offensive\u2014you sitting stoically with your place in the rank behind, what seems now to you anyway, to be a dugout, a trench, marking the place where he, the family cornerstone\u2014that\u2019s what you called him\u2014has been laid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115450","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115784,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115450\/revisions\/115784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}