{"id":127182,"date":"2023-09-02T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127182"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:53:05","slug":"hour-1-golden-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-1-golden-shovel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 &#8211; Golden Shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey on this sphere is limited <strong>in<\/strong><br \/>\ntime. Clich\u00e9, yes, but true. I think so much about <strong>life<\/strong><br \/>\nand its ending now that <strong>I<\/strong><br \/>\nam old enough for a senior discount. Some <strong>say&#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;I won&#8217;t write to her, <strong>let<\/strong><br \/>\nour sister be alone. She made her choices,&#8221; but <strong>me<\/strong>,<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t. I&#8217;ll keep reaching out and <strong>come<\/strong><br \/>\nto the end, hopefully more healed and <strong>closer.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat happens in those in-between odd and <strong>even<\/strong><br \/>\nyears that breaks relationships? <strong>if<\/strong><br \/>\nwe knew would we fix <strong>it<\/strong>?<br \/>\nIt is bitterness and hatred that <strong>kills<\/strong><br \/>\nnot forgiveness and love, which I choose for <strong>me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My striking line came from <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/divergence\">&#8220;Divergence&#8221; by Diana Khoi Nguyen<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;In life I say let me come closer even if it kills me&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our journey on this sphere is limited in time. Clich\u00e9, yes, but true. I think so much about life and its ending now that I am old enough for a senior discount. Some say&#8211; &#8220;I won&#8217;t write to her, let our sister be alone. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5784,5775,1588],"class_list":["post-127182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-divergence","tag-diana-khoi-nguyen","tag-golden-shovel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127496,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions\/127496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}