{"id":116401,"date":"2022-06-25T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116401"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:47:04","slug":"childhood-heart-hour-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/childhood-heart-hour-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Heart – Hour Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My aunt\u2019s house was the heart<\/span>
\n<\/span>Of my whole childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Playdates and birthdays,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Arts and crafts,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Playful, happy, creative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of all, I remember<\/span>
\n<\/span>Warm and cozy holidays spent<\/span>
\n<\/span>With a full house, full family, and<\/span>
\n<\/span>The best casseroles you\u2019ve ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n

We always had a movie night <\/span>
\n<\/span>After the big feast, whatever<\/span>
\n<\/span>The newest big thing was.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Us kids could hardly sit through dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart aches now for<\/span>
\n<\/span>The puppy piles of cousins and siblings,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Tired after the meal, but<\/span>
\n<\/span>Fighting our heavy eyelids so<\/span>
\n<\/span>We didn\u2019t miss the ending.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the heart of my childhood<\/span>
\n<\/span>Is all but shattered, with<\/span>
\n<\/span>All those times a fading memory.<\/span><\/p>\n

If only we could\u2019ve worked it out,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Before it all crumbled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My aunt\u2019s house was the heart Of my whole childhood. Playdates and birthdays, Arts and crafts, Playful, happy, creative.\u00a0 Most of all, I remember Warm and cozy holidays spent With a full house, full family, and The best casseroles you\u2019ve ever had. We always had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116419,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401\/revisions\/116419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}