{"id":141065,"date":"2023-09-03T04:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141065"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:27:44","slug":"companion-hour-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/companion-hour-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Companion, Hour Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companion<\/p>\n<p>Life during our early retirement<br \/>\nmore often than not is busier than work,<br \/>\nand so we create means and methods<br \/>\nto be together, innocuous routines<br \/>\nthat bring us near to one another again.<\/p>\n<p>I make our coffee at the keurig in our room<br \/>\nand in the meantime he makes the bed.<br \/>\nWhen the coffee is properly creamed and sugared<br \/>\nI carry it outside to our patio retreat<br \/>\nwhile he fills feeders for hungry bird and squirrel hordes.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for our day, hopes for our future,<br \/>\nall are hashed out at that morning table.<br \/>\nWe walk the dog, and the grandson, too,<br \/>\nto his bus stop, and wait for his ride to arrive.<br \/>\nWhen he&#8217;s on his way, we and the dog trundle on home again.<\/p>\n<p>Silly, but sweet, the lengths we will go to be near one another once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companion Life during our early retirement more often than not is busier than work, and so we create means and methods to be together, innocuous routines that bring us near to one another again. I make our coffee at the keurig in our room and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141065","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141156,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141065\/revisions\/141156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}