{"id":18716,"date":"2016-08-13T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2016-08-15T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:21:52","slug":"the-old-girl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-old-girl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the old girl  #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the old girl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the green ford pick-up owed him nothing<\/p>\n<p>in truck years it was far older than he<\/p>\n<p>tires worn, bed rusted, tailgate knocking<\/p>\n<p>he muttered complaints settling on the<\/p>\n<p>worn bench seat tuning in only a.m. radio<\/p>\n<p>hundreds of miles delivering his services to<\/p>\n<p>those who&#8217;d pay for freshly painted homes<\/p>\n<p>several new mufflers and brakes over the years<\/p>\n<p>always costing him more but the engine was sound<\/p>\n<p>she never let him down come inspection<\/p>\n<p>still with metal bumpers and adjustable mirrors<\/p>\n<p>some city fella offered cash for this collectable<\/p>\n<p>felt to him like selling a family member<\/p>\n<p>give her up the kids badgered his wife keeping silent<\/p>\n<p>folks knew the old girl waving tooting as he passed<\/p>\n<p>the bond stronger with time both needing new parts<\/p>\n<p>she outlasted him but just barely the boys leaving<\/p>\n<p>the chrome ford emblem on his headstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the old girl &nbsp; the green ford pick-up owed him nothing in truck years it was far older than he tires worn, bed rusted, tailgate knocking he muttered complaints settling on the worn bench seat tuning in only a.m. radio hundreds of miles delivering his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18756,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}