{"id":17564,"date":"2016-08-13T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17564"},"modified":"2016-08-28T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T10:25:12","slug":"too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Soon &#8211; Prompt One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She is old<br \/>\nNinety-three last Friday<br \/>\nSlow and not too steady on her feet<br \/>\nMoving quickly toward a finish line<br \/>\nIn a race that\u2019s sure to deplete<br \/>\nMy soul.<\/p>\n<p>She reaches for my hand<br \/>\nAnd I take it<br \/>\nCareful not to squeeze too tight<br \/>\nWishing I was an expert<br \/>\nAt hiding and taking flight<br \/>\nFrom what I know is soon to be.<\/p>\n<p>She knows<br \/>\nI know<br \/>\nIt won\u2019t be long<br \/>\nThis woman who always put me first<br \/>\nAnd stood so strong<br \/>\nNo matter how dire the circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when she doesn\u2019t recognize me<br \/>\nMy fragile feelings shatter<br \/>\nBut knowing she always loves me<br \/>\nMakes nothing else important<br \/>\nMakes nothing else matter.<\/p>\n<p>Until the end I\u2019ll be by her side<br \/>\nCaring for her as best I can<br \/>\nAfter that, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019ll be<br \/>\nWithout my mother to carry me<br \/>\nThrough the darkness that\u2019s sure to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is old Ninety-three last Friday Slow and not too steady on her feet Moving quickly toward a finish line In a race that\u2019s sure to deplete My soul. She reaches for my hand And I take it Careful not to squeeze too tight Wishing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","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\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}