{"id":138991,"date":"2023-09-03T01:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138991"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:13:35","slug":"life-passes-quickly-hour-seventeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/life-passes-quickly-hour-seventeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Passes Quickly &#8211; Hour Seventeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life Passes Quickly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Life passes so quickly<br \/>\nSo try not to blink<br \/>\nFor as sure as you do<br \/>\nTime shall fly in a wink<br \/>\nOne moment, a baby<br \/>\nA newborn of need<br \/>\nThen blink, now a graduate<br \/>\nReady to succeed<\/p>\n<p>Life passes so quickly<br \/>\nWhere do the years go<br \/>\nEach year they fall faster<br \/>\nThan December snow<br \/>\nOne moment, it&#8217;s Christmas<br \/>\nBlink &#8211; Fourth of July<br \/>\nIt slips to the future<br \/>\nSo do not ask why<\/p>\n<p>Life passes so quickly<br \/>\nOur time a mere flash<br \/>\nA mere fleeting hour<br \/>\nWe forge a mad dash<br \/>\nA rush to the finish<br \/>\nAn impact where we will<br \/>\nFor if one thing is certain<br \/>\nTime will never stand still<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Passes Quickly Life passes so quickly So try not to blink For as sure as you do Time shall fly in a wink One moment, a baby A newborn of need Then blink, now a graduate Ready to succeed Life passes so quickly Where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680,3019,1806,3456],"class_list":["post-138991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138991","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139115,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138991\/revisions\/139115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}