{"id":13923,"date":"2015-06-14T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2015-06-14T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T11:17:57","slug":"triolet-for-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/triolet-for-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Triolet for my father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live on the old farm where I grew up with my parents and which I worked with my father. Often, he&#8217;d walk up the road to check on the cattle that were out in nearby fields and I&#8217;d sit on the wall in front of the farm and watch him walk back down to me. I knew, even when I was young, that I&#8217;d have to store those memories away, for one day the road would be empty. <\/p>\n<p>I watch my father as he walks the road<br \/>\nAnd memorise each step he takes,<br \/>\nI need to remember how he strode.<br \/>\nI watch my father as he walks the road.<br \/>\nLater as we walk, his pace is slowed;<br \/>\nI help him then: we share the load.<br \/>\nI watch my father as he walks the road<br \/>\nAnd memorise each step he takes. <\/p>\n<p>(c) Anne McMaster 2015 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live on the old farm where I grew up with my parents and which I worked with my father. Often, he&#8217;d walk up the road to check on the cattle that were out in nearby fields and I&#8217;d sit on the wall in front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13939,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions\/13939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}