{"id":118376,"date":"2022-06-26T00:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118376"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:12:05","slug":"42-hour-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/42-hour-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"42, Hour Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*42<\/p>\n<p>At age fifteen I met the boy who would one day become my husband.<br \/>\nWe briefly dated, then parted ways after a misunderstanding<br \/>\nwe were both too shy to correct.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t panic.<br \/>\nIt all ended well.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later we met again after hardships on both sides,<br \/>\nstronger and wiser and finally ready to deeply love.<\/p>\n<p>We each kept our towels with us,<br \/>\nas we wooed one another and finally married.<br \/>\nAt what age did we figure out the answer<br \/>\nto life, the universe, and everything,<br \/>\nand incidentally, marry?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWrite a poem with the last line being a question and the answer being the title.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*42 At age fifteen I met the boy who would one day become my husband. We briefly dated, then parted ways after a misunderstanding we were both too shy to correct. Don&#8217;t panic. It all ended well. Decades later we met again after hardships on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118376","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123476,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118376\/revisions\/123476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}