{"id":116243,"date":"2022-06-25T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116243"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:38:12","slug":"gentle-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/gentle-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather had a deep,<br \/>\nrumbling way of chucking<br \/>\nthat came from deep within<br \/>\nat things he found amusing \u2013<br \/>\nme, mostly.<\/p>\n<p>Originating in a large belly<br \/>\npromulgated by years<br \/>\nof jovial beer drinking<br \/>\nhis chortle still echoes <\/p>\n<p>When he was amused<br \/>\nmy grandfather\u2019s best friend<br \/>\nhad what can be described<br \/>\nas a cackle\u2013 a raspy whisp<br \/>\nhoned by unfiltered Camels<br \/>\nand years of oil-paint fumes<\/p>\n<p>He was an easy man to amuse<br \/>\nand I accomplished the trick<br \/>\nconsistently, especially when the<br \/>\njoke was on my grandfather<\/p>\n<p>Practical, immigrant men who<br \/>\nsaw humor in the foibles of daily life<br \/>\nwho taught me how to be in<br \/>\non the joke, and on top of the joke<br \/>\nmuch of the fun was simply<br \/>\nin hearing them laugh <\/p>\n<p>Both of them long since gone<br \/>\nI see things that I know they would<br \/>\nfind absurd, or amusing and I<br \/>\ncan hear them both guffawing in<br \/>\ntheir own unique ways and I<br \/>\noften find it funny that is their<br \/>\nmerriment that still amuses me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather had a deep, rumbling way of chucking that came from deep within at things he found amusing \u2013 me, mostly. Originating in a large belly promulgated by years of jovial beer drinking his chortle still echoes When he was amused my grandfather\u2019s best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5266,5283,5303],"class_list":["post-116243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour11","tag-2022hour11laughterprompt","tag-2022-prompt-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116243","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116261,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116243\/revisions\/116261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}