{"id":13799,"date":"2015-06-14T06:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13799"},"modified":"2015-06-14T06:52:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:52:41","slug":"poem-15-after-all-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-15-after-all-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 15:  After All This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would still stand helpless,<br \/>\nwanting to talk about Hillary,<br \/>\njust as we talked about her<br \/>\nin 2008, deciding it wasn\u2019t her<br \/>\ntime yet. We were right about that,<br \/>\nbut wrong about everything else.<br \/>\nWe parted company and both<br \/>\nworked hard for Obama, our<br \/>\nhearts far apart, but our souls<br \/>\nstill connected, deep purple,<br \/>\nwomen of faith, capable of depths<br \/>\nonly imagined in dreams.<br \/>\nMine, not yours. Do you still think<br \/>\nI\u2019m too young for you, too impulsive,<br \/>\ntoo intense? Go ahead, then. Head on<br \/>\ninto old age without me. Wade in, deep<br \/>\nend of the pool. Tread water as long as<br \/>\nyou can. After you finish forgetting me,<br \/>\nI would love to take care of you, brush your<br \/>\nhair, bring you Irish Soda Bread, and soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would still stand helpless, wanting to talk about Hillary, just as we talked about her in 2008, deciding it wasn\u2019t her time yet. We were right about that, but wrong about everything else. We parted company and both worked hard for Obama, our hearts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13799\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}