{"id":127682,"date":"2023-09-02T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127682"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:09:13","slug":"obits-laundry-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/obits-laundry-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Obits &amp; Laundry Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer legs march past my living room window,<br \/>\nnonchalance with leashed dogs,<br \/>\ninattentive to beast while studying phones.<br \/>\nInterrupted only by my envy,<br \/>\nI nestle with consternation of<br \/>\nan extended deadline<br \/>\nand wishing my recorded voice<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t annoy the hell out of me.<br \/>\nThe washer and the ceiling fan<br \/>\nand the waning morningsong<br \/>\nlull me into thinking<br \/>\nthis day might be mine to kill more efficiently.<br \/>\nI cross self-tanner for my own limbs<br \/>\noff the list<br \/>\nand wait for the spin cycle<br \/>\nto motivate me to stand.<br \/>\nRon stopped wearing his Hawaiian shirts<br \/>\nto work, but the straw hat<br \/>\nI can see on the backseat.<br \/>\nNothing&#8217;s out of reach.<br \/>\nYet.<br \/>\nWe can still scratch our futures<br \/>\nlike a lottery ticket one of us bought<br \/>\nat the grocery store<br \/>\nwith the eggs and coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer legs march past my living room window, nonchalance with leashed dogs, inattentive to beast while studying phones. Interrupted only by my envy, I nestle with consternation of an extended deadline and wishing my recorded voice didn&#8217;t annoy the hell out of me. The washer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127682","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128113,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127682\/revisions\/128113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}