{"id":127715,"date":"2023-09-02T10:09:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127715"},"modified":"2023-09-20T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:02:18","slug":"hour-two-me-at-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-two-me-at-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Two: Me at Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Years Old<\/p>\n<p>Dad has been dead for two years now<br \/>\nas my ten-year-old brain<br \/>\nstruggles to understand<br \/>\nwhat death is.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine I see him sometimes<br \/>\non the street, walking briskly<br \/>\ncarrying a folded newspaper,<br \/>\nhiding his face from us.<\/p>\n<p>Why did he leave us?<br \/>\nSomething I did?<br \/>\nMy little brain can barely<br \/>\ncomprehend life,<br \/>\nlet alone death?<\/p>\n<p>Dying?<br \/>\nWhat the hell is that?<br \/>\nHe\u2019s gone, and two years later<br \/>\nI still can\u2019t understand why.<\/p>\n<p>I miss his unshaven cheeks<br \/>\nscratching me when he hugs me,<br \/>\nhis eyes smiling into mine.<br \/>\nHe is gone from this world<br \/>\nyet his presence remains<br \/>\nhints of another life<br \/>\nanother existence<br \/>\nbeyond my<br \/>\nunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Years Old Dad has been dead for two years now as my ten-year-old brain struggles to understand what death is. I imagine I see him sometimes on the street, walking briskly carrying a folded newspaper, hiding his face from us. Why did he leave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127715","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\/4907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145519,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127715\/revisions\/145519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}