{"id":13740,"date":"2015-06-14T06:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2015-06-14T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:45:16","slug":"all-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/all-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"All this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes follow him<\/p>\n<p>as he shifts position,<\/p>\n<p>reacting as he reacts to her.<\/p>\n<p>Eyes that jump with joy to meet<\/p>\n<p>and always have<\/p>\n<p>for so many years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She waits til he settles<\/p>\n<p>before she whispers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t too bad, was it Sam?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the first twenty five years<\/p>\n<p>were touch and go,but<\/p>\n<p>the next twenty five made up for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She coughs a weak laugh<\/p>\n<p>he touches her hand.<\/p>\n<p>The merest touch<\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s enough<\/p>\n<p>for powerful emotion<\/p>\n<p>on a well run course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She smiles softly<\/p>\n<p>then closes her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll never make her laugh again.<\/p>\n<p>He feels her hand cool<\/p>\n<p>as she drifts away from him<\/p>\n<p>after all this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes follow him as he shifts position, reacting as he reacts to her. Eyes that jump with joy to meet and always have for so many years. &nbsp; She waits til he settles before she whispers &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t too bad, was it Sam?&#8221; &#8220;Well,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740","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\/533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13777,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}