{"id":132097,"date":"2023-09-02T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132097"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:26:20","slug":"labor-day-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/labor-day-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago<br \/>\nSince you breathed your last<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t there<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t get to say goodbye<\/p>\n<p>I heard I was asked for<br \/>\nEleven years ago<br \/>\nBut when I checked to be sure<br \/>\nI was denied this truth<\/p>\n<p>I agonized over your passing<br \/>\nAnd wanted one more time<br \/>\nEleven years ago<br \/>\nTo see if you missed mine<\/p>\n<p>After sitting alone all night<br \/>\nWondering if there\u2019d be one more chance<br \/>\nI perused Facebook<br \/>\nEleven years ago<br \/>\nAnd found out you were gone<\/p>\n<p>My mother died surrounded<br \/>\nBy those who loved her most<br \/>\nMe? I wasn\u2019t there because<br \/>\nThose souls told me I wasn\u2019t wanted<br \/>\nEleven years ago<br \/>\nAnd didn\u2019t even tell me my mother was gone<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade has now passed<br \/>\nAnd Momma\u2019s legacy lives on<br \/>\nHer death that kept me apart<br \/>\nKeeps me apart still<br \/>\nFrom the hope that once burned<br \/>\nThat my family would include me<br \/>\nEleven years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years ago Since you breathed your last I wasn\u2019t there Didn\u2019t get to say goodbye I heard I was asked for Eleven years ago But when I checked to be sure I was denied this truth I agonized over your passing And wanted one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,1136],"tags":[4327,5994,51,5996,412,5995],"class_list":["post-132097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-mothers","tag-anniversaries","tag-death","tag-eleven-years-ago","tag-family","tag-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132097","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132677,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132097\/revisions\/132677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}