{"id":133500,"date":"2023-09-02T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133500"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:41:29","slug":"ode-to-a-soldier-hour-eight-inspired-by-max-richters-on-the-nature-of-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ode-to-a-soldier-hour-eight-inspired-by-max-richters-on-the-nature-of-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Soldier, Hour Eight, Inspired by Max Richter&#8217;s On the Nature of Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to a Soldier<\/p>\n<p>My love is a wondrous man,<br \/>\ndevoted and kind,<br \/>\nbold in his love for us,<br \/>\nyet gentle in his approach,<br \/>\nas we were all as skittish deer<br \/>\nwhen he arrived in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>His humor unlocked for us<br \/>\nthe hilarity in our hearts,<br \/>\nlaughter trickling first tentatively,<br \/>\nthen permeating, saturating our home,<br \/>\ngood feeling that will live on in its beams<br \/>\nto the next family it shelters.<\/p>\n<p>He taught our sons to be men<br \/>\nthat could love and be loved<br \/>\nboth in strength and in wisdom,<br \/>\nour daughter to trust in good,<br \/>\nand her own steely determination<br \/>\nthat could neither be bent nor broken.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in constant pain,<br \/>\npervasive exhaustion, and yet<br \/>\nnot a word is spent in complaint.<br \/>\nA legacy of service in times of war<br \/>\nleft its mark on his body,<br \/>\nbut strengthened the resolve of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>I am blessed to receive all<br \/>\nthat his generous heart bestows.<br \/>\nMy days are golden<br \/>\nbecause we have found each other,<br \/>\npieces slotted into personal puzzles<br \/>\nwe did not know before were incomplete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to a Soldier My love is a wondrous man, devoted and kind, bold in his love for us, yet gentle in his approach, as we were all as skittish deer when he arrived in our lives. His humor unlocked for us the hilarity in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133500","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133674,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133500\/revisions\/133674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}