{"id":128555,"date":"2023-09-02T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128555"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:59:15","slug":"old-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/old-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six decades,<\/p>\n<p>how did I know so little?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I catch myself in<\/p>\n<p>cellphone photographs,<\/p>\n<p>cheek jowls still firm,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>teeth bared, grinning<\/p>\n<p>into the camera,<\/p>\n<p>as if my problems were<\/p>\n<p>invisible, nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behind me, a backdrop<\/p>\n<p>of rivers and trees,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>an endless spider web<\/p>\n<p>of mountain trails<\/p>\n<p>my spine could still navigate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a sky dome<\/p>\n<p>hovered above, witnessing<\/p>\n<p>everything I failed to see,<\/p>\n<p>yet remaining silent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t have listened,<\/p>\n<p>anyway. \u00a0Eyes and ears<\/p>\n<p>tuned to unconsciousness,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I walk the path, turn<\/p>\n<p>my head for a moment,<\/p>\n<p>and pose, while motion continues:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>relentless, erasing my body,<\/p>\n<p>blurring its lines like water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six decades, how did I know so little? &nbsp; I catch myself in cellphone photographs, cheek jowls still firm, &nbsp; teeth bared, grinning into the camera, as if my problems were invisible, nonexistent. &nbsp; Behind me, a backdrop of rivers and trees, &nbsp; an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128555","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\/4286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136392,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128555\/revisions\/136392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}