{"id":12838,"date":"2015-06-14T02:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12838"},"modified":"2015-06-14T02:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:53:21","slug":"better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waves crescendo into a mighty wisp,<\/p>\n<p>crashing against the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Seagulls swoop and dive in a fury of anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>But no sound.<\/p>\n<p>Emptiness.<\/p>\n<p>Silent echos<\/p>\n<p>of nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Memories that stop.<\/p>\n<p>Always dreaming, but never dreamt.<\/p>\n<p>Prelude with no finale.<\/p>\n<p>All being,<\/p>\n<p>but never been.<\/p>\n<p>Nepenthe.<\/p>\n<p>No pain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a flurry,<\/p>\n<p>a connection ignites,<\/p>\n<p>Memories flood forward.<\/p>\n<p>A tiny hand reaches through.<\/p>\n<p>Mama, don\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t, Baby Girl.<\/p>\n<p>Never<\/p>\n<p>again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waves crescendo into a mighty wisp, crashing against the rocks. Seagulls swoop and dive in a fury of anticipation. But no sound. Emptiness. Silent echos of nothing. &nbsp; Memories that stop. Always dreaming, but never dreamt. Prelude with no finale. All being, but never been&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}