{"id":1781,"date":"2014-08-23T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2014-08-23T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:16:37","slug":"four-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/four-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFour Down\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember one midnight mass years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A quaint old church some miles away.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lantern<\/em> in hand, our <em>boots<\/em> crunched in the wet grass.<\/p>\n<p>Our <em>laughter<\/em> ringing <em>clear<\/em> in the empty country field.<\/p>\n<p>And thereafter, as <em>beech<\/em> firewood burnt in the fireplace,<\/p>\n<p>We toasted each other, and promised friendship forever.<\/p>\n<p>Memories still waft through time\u2019s mist.<\/p>\n<p>I smile in my recollection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember one midnight mass years ago. A quaint old church some miles away. Lantern in hand, our boots crunched in the wet grass. Our laughter ringing clear in the empty country field. And thereafter, as beech firewood burnt in the fireplace, We toasted each&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}