{"id":128202,"date":"2023-09-02T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128202"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:37:28","slug":"poem-2-some-graces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-2-some-graces\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2 Some Graces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4am Poem 2<\/p>\n<p>Some Graces<\/p>\n<p>About ten years ago<br \/>\na teenaged young man<br \/>\nsmashed into a pole on Honoa&#8217;piilani Hwy<br \/>\ndriving home late from work.<br \/>\nHe left his body immediately.<\/p>\n<p>There are some graces.<\/p>\n<p>White gloved<br \/>\nI drove him to his home ,<\/p>\n<p>Lahainatown<br \/>\ndown Front Street<br \/>\npast the Banyon Tree<br \/>\nthrough congested little avenues<br \/>\nstopping at his house<br \/>\nwhere family, neighbors and friends stood<br \/>\nsolemnly waiting to fall<br \/>\ninto processional to the church<br \/>\nto the cemetery<br \/>\nto his place of final resting.<br \/>\nHe was gone.<br \/>\nHe is gone.<\/p>\n<p>He and all are gone now,<br \/>\nstolen by firestorm<br \/>\nall gone but the Banyon Tree<br \/>\nof his youngest youth.<\/p>\n<p>There is still some life in our<br \/>\nstrong, old Banyon Tree.<\/p>\n<p>There are still some graces.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230902_043236_283.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4am Poem 2 Some Graces About ten years ago a teenaged young man smashed into a pole on Honoa&#8217;piilani Hwy driving home late from work. He left his body immediately. There are some graces. White gloved I drove him to his home , Lahainatown down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128202","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128293,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128202\/revisions\/128293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}