{"id":1645,"date":"2014-08-23T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2014-08-23T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:06:28","slug":"4-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/4-after\/","title":{"rendered":"#4, After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can still be normal.<\/p>\n<p>After the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when we let it happen.<\/p>\n<p>We can still be the family we were before.<\/p>\n<p>When we aren&#8217;t paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>When we ignore the empty chair.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t last forever.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of her steady laugh in the back ground.<\/p>\n<p>Is a screaming silence.<\/p>\n<p>That is never really covered over,<\/p>\n<p>by the temporary laughter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can still be normal. After the loss. Sometimes when we let it happen. We can still be the family we were before. When we aren&#8217;t paying attention. When we ignore the empty chair. But it doesn&#8217;t last forever. The absence of her steady laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}