{"id":115782,"date":"2022-06-25T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115782"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:51:17","slug":"2022-poetry-marathon-poem-12-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-poetry-marathon-poem-12-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering (2022 Poem 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering<\/p>\n<p>Three sisters sit, toes drifting in warm sand<br \/>\nSun sets in crimson hues on the sea&#8217;s horizon<br \/>\nWine glasses raised, they solemnly toast<br \/>\nTimes shared long ago but not forgotten<\/p>\n<p>Who could have known what would befall<br \/>\nBoth parents passed on too young<br \/>\nA fourth sister left, full of her own conceits<br \/>\nUnable to stay her harsh tongue<\/p>\n<p>Memories of childhood, lived innocently<br \/>\nBefore the world became too much<br \/>\nLaughter sounds softly and smiles emerge<br \/>\nOur lives need a gentler touch<\/p>\n<p>(Prompt: Write about gathering with others.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering Three sisters sit, toes drifting in warm sand Sun sets in crimson hues on the sea&#8217;s horizon Wine glasses raised, they solemnly toast Times shared long ago but not forgotten Who could have known what would befall Both parents passed on too young A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4880],"class_list":["post-115782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115782","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\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115782"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116470,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115782\/revisions\/116470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}