{"id":133618,"date":"2023-09-02T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133618"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:37:04","slug":"funeral-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/funeral-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m already tired of funeral songs<\/span><\/p>\n

Only a few decades under my belt<\/span><\/p>\n

and yet I feel like I\u2019ve seen too many funerals<\/span><\/p>\n

A few for the old<\/span><\/p>\n

but too many for the young<\/span><\/p>\n

and those near to me I wish I could hold tight<\/span><\/p>\n

But bottles still spill out<\/span><\/p>\n

along with the blood and the soul<\/span><\/p>\n

of those I have known for at least two liftetimes<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m already tired of funeral songs Only a few decades under my belt and yet I feel like I\u2019ve seen too many funerals A few for the old but too many for the young and those near to me I wish I could hold tight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[2473,1627,6027,6029,6028,48],"class_list":["post-133618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-friends","tag-alcohol","tag-funerals","tag-lifetime","tag-liquor","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133618","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133628,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133618\/revisions\/133628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}