{"id":133258,"date":"2023-09-02T16:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133258"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:57:42","slug":"life-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/life-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLife\u201d Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for Joe Curry &amp; Brandon Cullen<\/p>\n<p>\u201dLifeguards in every sense.\u201d Carol Gussoff, CBS New York<\/p>\n<p>One lifeguard bench at Robert Moses State Beach connects two twenty-four year olds.<\/p>\n<p>A bond closer than any of us imagine.<\/p>\n<p>They share a love of gym workouts,<\/p>\n<p>surfing, and working together<\/p>\n<p>for five years.<\/p>\n<p>One life saved without a single drop of water.<\/p>\n<p>A true sacrifice in giving<\/p>\n<p>one lifeguard to another.<\/p>\n<p>A kidney transplant enables<\/p>\n<p>their continuation in saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>This contribution gives the term \u201clifeguard\u201d a true meaning,<\/p>\n<p>long after a beach season ends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Joe Curry &amp; Brandon Cullen \u201dLifeguards in every sense.\u201d Carol Gussoff, CBS New York One lifeguard bench at Robert Moses State Beach connects two twenty-four year olds. A bond closer than any of us imagine. They share a love of gym workouts, surfing, and&#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-133258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133258","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=133258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137820,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133258\/revisions\/137820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}