{"id":121156,"date":"2022-06-26T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121156"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:07:47","slug":"hour-22-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-22-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 22: Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t hate Death<br \/>\nNor do I fear it<br \/>\nNo, I know it&#8217;s a friend<br \/>\nOne that takes away suffering<br \/>\nAnd grants peace, eternal slumber<\/p>\n<p>What I hate is the aftermath<br \/>\nThe grief, the pain<br \/>\nThe funeral arrangements<br \/>\nAnd greeting everyone<br \/>\nPutting up a brave face<\/p>\n<p>What I fear is the aftermath<br \/>\nThe wailing fading to soft sobbing<br \/>\nWaves of memories and heart-wrenching pain<br \/>\nThe wish to turn back time<br \/>\nThe helplessness knowing it&#8217;s a pipe dream<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t hate Death<br \/>\nNor do I fear it<br \/>\nWhat I hate is the aftermath<br \/>\nWhat I fear is the aftermath<br \/>\nWhat I know will always follow death \u2014 the damned aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t hate Death Nor do I fear it No, I know it&#8217;s a friend One that takes away suffering And grants peace, eternal slumber What I hate is the aftermath The grief, the pain The funeral arrangements And greeting everyone Putting up a brave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121156","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121156\/revisions\/121225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}