{"id":123676,"date":"2022-06-26T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=123676"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:37:54","slug":"echo-husband-hour-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/echo-husband-hour-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo Husband (Hour 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>so very young you see<\/p>\n<p>I could not wait to get married<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to a man who would love me<\/p>\n<p>Not a beauty nor shapely<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>at least not that I could see<\/p>\n<p>But still in my heart<\/p>\n<p>I wanted someone to love me<\/p>\n<p>At last when I found him<\/p>\n<p>and took him to ground<\/p>\n<p>I thought he was happy<\/p>\n<p>that I too had been found<\/p>\n<p>Along came a child<\/p>\n<p>a girl pretty and tall<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Next a round boy<\/p>\n<p>that following Fall<\/p>\n<p>It started before then<\/p>\n<p>but I never had noticed<\/p>\n<p>The very late hours<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>he flew to Tuamotus<\/p>\n<p>More frequently than not<\/p>\n<p>he\u2019d call on the phone<\/p>\n<p>Reminding me again<\/p>\n<p>he\u2019d not be coming home<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The man I had married<\/p>\n<p>the man I had loved<\/p>\n<p>Now an echo a memory<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>with someone else that he loves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young\u00a0 so very young you see I could not wait to get married\u00a0 to a man who would love me Not a beauty nor shapely\u00a0 at least not that I could see But still in my heart I wanted someone to love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123677,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676\/revisions\/123677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}