{"id":20436,"date":"2016-08-13T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20436"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:48:27","slug":"five-minutes-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/five-minutes-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minutes Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic halted,<br \/>\nI sighed&#8230;another slow ride.<br \/>\nYawned and closed my eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sparking fancy car<br \/>\nMoving slowly side by side.<br \/>\nTwo sad brown eyes<br \/>\nPeering through the glass window of a luxurious ride.<br \/>\nHe made silly faces but no happy sight.<\/p>\n<p>Our eyes met &#8230;<br \/>\nI smiled and mouthed the word &#8220;Hi&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe waved and blew, &#8220;Thank you.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe giggled a little and gestured,<br \/>\nThe food on his lap.<br \/>\nA little child, barely a kid having breakfast<br \/>\nIn the backseat of a fancy car.<br \/>\nWhile mom and dad busy fiddling their gadgets.<br \/>\nTalking to an invisible friend<\/p>\n<p>As we waved goodbye,<br \/>\nIn a morning traffic jam<br \/>\nIn five minutes time<br \/>\nI met a tiny friend<br \/>\nWhom I learned.<br \/>\nThe paradox of time.<br \/>\nWe have more but we grow less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic halted, I sighed&#8230;another slow ride. Yawned and closed my eyes&#8230; Sparking fancy car Moving slowly side by side. Two sad brown eyes Peering through the glass window of a luxurious ride. He made silly faces but no happy sight. Our eyes met &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436","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\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20684,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20436\/revisions\/20684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}