{"id":131810,"date":"2023-09-02T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131810"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:30:01","slug":"4-two-shall-be-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/4-two-shall-be-one\/","title":{"rendered":"#4 Two Shall Be One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Shall Be One<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was a half-step ahead of her\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Swatting down spider\u2019s webs<\/p>\n<p>And lifting branches so she could walk without obstructions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the path got steep,<\/p>\n<p>He reached down and pulled her up<\/p>\n<p>Or stood below so she wouldn\u2019t slide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the lake side, he took off his backpack<\/p>\n<p>And produced a sandwich lunch.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t need words to express their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They had a map but had decided to chart their own path.<\/p>\n<p>They trusted each other<\/p>\n<p>Confident in the commitment<\/p>\n<p>To honor one another.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Shall Be One &nbsp; He was a half-step ahead of her\u2014 Swatting down spider\u2019s webs And lifting branches so she could walk without obstructions. &nbsp; When the path got steep, He reached down and pulled her up Or stood below so she wouldn\u2019t slide&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131810","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131835,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131810\/revisions\/131835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}