{"id":131446,"date":"2023-09-02T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131446"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:19:27","slug":"because-she-hung-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/because-she-hung-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Because She Hung Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for Lauri Carleton<\/p>\n<p>Mag.pi is the name of her boutique<\/p>\n<p>in Cedar Glen, California,<\/p>\n<p>small business outside San Bernardino.<\/p>\n<p>This fashionista studied Fashion in Pasadena and worked fifteen years for Kenneth Cole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because she hung rainbows<\/p>\n<p>vibrant colors like the plush toys.<\/p>\n<p>I played with in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lauri loved hard<\/p>\n<p>a mother of nine.<br \/>\nShe nurtured and protected<\/p>\n<p>those she cared about.<\/p>\n<p>This giving heart organized a co-op<\/p>\n<p>gave out free food and supplies<\/p>\n<p>during a blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because she hung rainbows<\/p>\n<p>her property and flags damaged,<\/p>\n<p>but not her spirit and support.<\/p>\n<p>This woman laughed through her smiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because she hung rainbows<\/p>\n<p>an angry culprit with a gun<\/p>\n<p>took her life stained her flags<\/p>\n<p>with hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Now a community mourns<\/p>\n<p>with \u201cacts of kindness\u201d<\/p>\n<p>being done in her memory.<\/p>\n<p>Children without a mother<\/p>\n<p>husband without a wife<\/p>\n<p>a business without an owner<\/p>\n<p>all because she hung rainbows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Lauri Carleton Mag.pi is the name of her boutique in Cedar Glen, California, small business outside San Bernardino. This fashionista studied Fashion in Pasadena and worked fifteen years for Kenneth Cole. &nbsp; Because she hung rainbows vibrant colors like the plush toys. I played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131446","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\/4331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131705,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131446\/revisions\/131705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}