{"id":115852,"date":"2022-06-25T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115852"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:28:27","slug":"the-gathering-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-gathering-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Gathering\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A call from an old friend at Eight,<br \/>\nHe said; wear a black and don\u2019t be late.<br \/>\nI was there just before everyone arrived. <\/p>\n<p>A rose on hand, as white as snow,<br \/>\nThen after a moment, I let it go<br \/>\nAnd gave it to you.<\/p>\n<p>But how will a dead person appreciate the flowers?<br \/>\nThey can no longer touch or smell.<br \/>\nHow can they even tell?<\/p>\n<p>Familiar voices cracks the silence,<br \/>\nTom, Gary and Mary are all here,<br \/>\nWhat a perfect way to interfere. <\/p>\n<p>A wine they offer,<br \/>\nA talk from the past,<br \/>\nWhat a blast that never last.<\/p>\n<p>Four old folks in the wake,<br \/>\nFor the first time, I am not late.<br \/>\nAnd for the first you\u2019re here Kate.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nWriter: M.E. Flores<br \/>\nHour12, Text Prompt12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call from an old friend at Eight, He said; wear a black and don\u2019t be late. I was there just before everyone arrived. A rose on hand, as white as snow, Then after a moment, I let it go And gave it to you&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115852","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\/1370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116138,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115852\/revisions\/116138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}