{"id":14309,"date":"2015-06-14T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:39:40","slug":"poem-23-i-doubt-if-im-up-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-23-i-doubt-if-im-up-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 23:  I Doubt If I&#8217;m Up For This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times do we say that<br \/>\nto ourselves, when we smell the baby\u2019s<br \/>\ndiaper, and know the parents are out on a<br \/>\ndate we sent them on, and won\u2019t be back<br \/>\nfor hours? When we see the old dog falter<br \/>\nin its steps, and know we can\u2019t stop cruel,<br \/>\ninexorable time? When you, my love, look<br \/>\npuzzled when I try to play that game with you,<br \/>\nor read that poem you\u2019ve always loved, and I<br \/>\nknow you don\u2019t remember, you\u2019ll never remember<br \/>\nagain, because so many details of our too-short<br \/>\ntime together are already lost in the hippocampus,<br \/>\nwhere young memories go to die. I know I must<br \/>\nbe up for this, for loving you, as your steps falter,<br \/>\nand you grow dim. I promise I will take care of<br \/>\nyou, and make you laugh, even when you think<br \/>\nI\u2019m just someone the agency sent,<br \/>\nto change your bedclothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many times do we say that to ourselves, when we smell the baby\u2019s diaper, and know the parents are out on a date we sent them on, and won\u2019t be back for hours? When we see the old dog falter in its steps, and&#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-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309","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=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14317,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/14317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}