{"id":129406,"date":"2023-09-02T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129406"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:27:35","slug":"simple-and-stormy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/simple-and-stormy\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple and stormy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life was simple<br \/>\nSo I thought<br \/>\nAt the time<\/p>\n<p>When I look<br \/>\nBack there were<br \/>\nMany stormy episodes<\/p>\n<p>Unbidden these scenes<br \/>\nSurprisingly played out<br \/>\nIn my mind<\/p>\n<p>Prevalent and troubling<br \/>\nThese memories arrived<br \/>\nAt unexpected moments<\/p>\n<p>But I survived<br \/>\nAll seven of<br \/>\nUs survived them<\/p>\n<p>Like chaff driven<br \/>\nBy the wind<br \/>\nWe were scattered<\/p>\n<p>Solo and in<br \/>\nPairs going out<br \/>\nTaking separate highways<\/p>\n<p>Decades have past<br \/>\nWe lost one<br \/>\nOf our own<\/p>\n<p>By his own<br \/>\nHand he took<br \/>\nHis pain away<\/p>\n<p>We mourned separately<br \/>\nAlas our grief<br \/>\nGenerated no reunion<\/p>\n<p>It was just<br \/>\nAnother stormy day<br \/>\nBut not simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life was simple So I thought At the time When I look Back there were Many stormy episodes Unbidden these scenes Surprisingly played out In my mind Prevalent and troubling These memories arrived At unexpected moments But I survived All seven of Us survived them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129406","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130012,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129406\/revisions\/130012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}