{"id":136228,"date":"2023-09-02T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136228"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:47:10","slug":"hour-11-my-study-buddy-my-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-11-my-study-buddy-my-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11: My study buddy, my rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My longest running study buddy is a support, and an absolute rock<br \/>\nAs a child, a teen, a youth, a young person, and onwards in years<br \/>\nHas stood sentinel<br \/>\nSilent watchman<br \/>\nWitness to my widening mind and heart<br \/>\nDiligent in his duties<br \/>\nHe has attended study halls and exams<br \/>\nHe has traveled the length and breadth of the land<br \/>\nHe has gone beside me through hardships unnumbered<br \/>\nGuard. Witness. Sentinel.<br \/>\nFriend.<br \/>\nRock.<br \/>\nAnd I do mean rock\u2026 soapstone apparently.<br \/>\nElementary school-me could apparently not be convinced to leave him behind.<br \/>\nElementary school-me was correct<br \/>\nHe\u2019s not heavy\u2026 he\u2019s my study-buddy. My rock. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3816-230x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3816-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3816-787x1024.jpeg 787w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3816-768x1000.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3816.jpeg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My longest running study buddy is a support, and an absolute rock As a child, a teen, a youth, a young person, and onwards in years Has stood sentinel Silent watchman Witness to my widening mind and heart Diligent in his duties He has attended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[684,6125,6126],"class_list":["post-136228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-childhood","tag-favourite-item","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136228","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\/4375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136279,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136228\/revisions\/136279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}