{"id":131265,"date":"2023-09-02T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131265"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:58:19","slug":"conundrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/conundrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Conundrums  (Prompt 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grandparents I never met<br \/>\nparents of the father I loved<br \/>\nsecretive though he was<br \/>\nabout them, him and them <\/p>\n<p>Grandma and grandpa died<br \/>\nbefore I came along<br \/>\nnever even met my mother<br \/>\nrarely were spoken of <\/p>\n<p>Mentioned only essentially<br \/>\nnames, dates &#8211; never<br \/>\nmore than conversational<br \/>\nversions of headstones<\/p>\n<p>Enigmas, all.<\/p>\n<p>My father \u2013 close as<br \/>\nwe were \u2013 who never said<br \/>\nmother who never asked<br \/>\ngrandparents who . . ?<\/p>\n<p>What would I have called<br \/>\nthem, or them me?<br \/>\nWould I have picked up<br \/>\ntheir native Yiddish?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing nothing I can<br \/>\nonly guess; research the<br \/>\nclues I can hardly find<br \/>\nalways longing for more<\/p>\n<p>We are enigmas, all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2023<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grandparents I never met parents of the father I loved secretive though he was about them, him and them Grandma and grandpa died before I came along never even met my mother rarely were spoken of Mentioned only essentially names, dates &#8211; never more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5772,5765,5951,5929],"class_list":["post-131265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt5","tag-2023hour5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131265","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143211,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131265\/revisions\/143211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}