{"id":130098,"date":"2023-09-02T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130098"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:41:51","slug":"hour-4-goodbye-two-weeks-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-4-goodbye-two-weeks-shy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: Goodbye, Two Weeks Shy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To have and to hold from this day forward<br \/>\nIn sickness and in health<br \/>\nTwo weeks shy<br \/>\n\u2026there\u2019s an odd feeling of displacement in that<br \/>\nIn the midst of the grief<br \/>\nTears upon tears<br \/>\nRage at the universal unfairness of the universe<br \/>\nRage and tears &#8211; both<br \/>\nBoth of enough to drown the whole world<br \/>\nEverybody knows that everybody dies<br \/>\nYet no one truly *knows*,<br \/>\nNo one truly *believes*<br \/>\nNot really<br \/>\nWe live here, in the now<br \/>\nWe have, and hold, and love, and *live*<br \/>\nFor ten<br \/>\nFor twenty<br \/>\nFor thirty<br \/>\nFor forty<br \/>\nFor fifty<br \/>\nFor \u2026two weeks shy\u2026<br \/>\nand *lose*<br \/>\nJust two weeks shy to say goodbye<br \/>\nThe old refrain goes so &#8211;<br \/>\n\u201cI hate to see you go<br \/>\nBut I love to watch you leave\u201d<br \/>\nAnd so it is<br \/>\nIn all other times<br \/>\nAll times<br \/>\nBut the last<br \/>\nVale Farewell Adieu <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To have and to hold from this day forward In sickness and in health Two weeks shy \u2026there\u2019s an odd feeling of displacement in that In the midst of the grief Tears upon tears Rage at the universal unfairness of the universe Rage and tears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[51,1204,683],"class_list":["post-130098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130098","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130249,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130098\/revisions\/130249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}