{"id":117256,"date":"2022-06-25T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117256"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:39:57","slug":"no-17-scenes-from-days-gone-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-17-scenes-from-days-gone-by\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 17: Scenes From Days Gone By"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>My babyhood firsts were noted by\r\nMy mother who wrote them down in a book\r\nThat I don't have access to\r\nI can imagine they were first teeth,\r\nFirst smile, first illness, first walk\r\n\r\nMy first remembrances don't go back that far\r\nI have a vivid scene in my head of\r\nMy younger sister running, tripping, and falling\r\nHead first on a meter, blood pouring from a pock-like wound\r\nHer scream is what I remember the most\r\n\r\nSuch memories are part and parcel of family life\r\nMe falling off my bike, fracturing my wrist\r\nMy oldest brother burning his feet in a ditch full of embers\r\nThe youngest brother throwing himself head long\r\nOnto the concrete floor and not crying\r\n\r\nOne of my fondest memories is of me\r\nLying in bed at night, Mom turning the radio on\r\nSo I could listen to the likes of the Lone Ranger,\r\nAmos and Andy, and Arthur Godfrey\r\nMany of these shows migrated to television\r\n\r\nI spent hours on Saturday mornings\r\nEating my breakfast of some cereal\r\nAnd reading the cereal box's back and side panels\r\nThat's when there was something worth reading\r\nOn the box besides lists of mysterious ingredients<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My babyhood firsts were noted by My mother who wrote them down in a book That I don&#8217;t have access to I can imagine they were first teeth, First smile, first illness, first walk My first remembrances don&#8217;t go back that far I have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117256","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117475,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117256\/revisions\/117475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}