{"id":19256,"date":"2016-08-13T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19256"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:39:21","slug":"poem-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For sale, black leather<\/p>\n<p>baby shoes,<\/p>\n<p>worn, cracked, aged.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five dollars,<\/p>\n<p>found in a tourist shop<\/p>\n<p>among patriotic towels,<\/p>\n<p>candles and soaps,<\/p>\n<p>all over-priced.<\/p>\n<p>Forgotten by the buyer,<\/p>\n<p>unknown by the feet<\/p>\n<p>which wore them<\/p>\n<p>so long ago.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the man<\/p>\n<p>whose mama carefully saved<\/p>\n<p>to buy those shoes,<\/p>\n<p>who lovingly tied them,<\/p>\n<p>kissed his round face,<\/p>\n<p>and held his hand<\/p>\n<p>to steady his steps?<\/p>\n<p>Where is the man<\/p>\n<p>who loved his mama,<\/p>\n<p>and smiled up at her eyes<\/p>\n<p>and went on his way<\/p>\n<p>in the black leather<\/p>\n<p>baby shoes?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eve Remillard<\/p>\n<p>8\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For sale, black leather baby shoes, worn, cracked, aged. Twenty-five dollars, found in a tourist shop among patriotic towels, candles and soaps, all over-priced. Forgotten by the buyer, unknown by the feet which wore them so long ago. Where is the man whose mama carefully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1361,410],"class_list":["post-19256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-motherlove","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256","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\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions\/19343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}