{"id":20841,"date":"2016-08-13T14:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20841"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:06:40","slug":"sister-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/sister-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister   #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>beneath Nana&#8217;s afghans<\/p>\n<p>telling scary stories<\/p>\n<p>we gave our childhood a home<\/p>\n<p>blue and purple stretched over pillows<\/p>\n<p>we wandered through imagined places<\/p>\n<p>enclosing sister secrets and pleasures<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it lasted as long as it could<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>replaced by others with their false caring<\/p>\n<p>I left her for them hoping for more<\/p>\n<p>she went to find out for herself<\/p>\n<p>what was offered to keep<\/p>\n<p>rarely passing in different stories<\/p>\n<p>we touched each other little<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it lasted as long as it could<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>captured in my own heavy battles<\/p>\n<p>my sister always too true<\/p>\n<p>drowned outside the blue and purple afghans<\/p>\n<p>seeking what was forgotten<\/p>\n<p><em>much of it was very beautiful<\/em><\/p>\n<p>she wrote when saying good-bye<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it lasted as long as it could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister &nbsp; beneath Nana&#8217;s afghans telling scary stories we gave our childhood a home blue and purple stretched over pillows we wandered through imagined places enclosing sister secrets and pleasures &nbsp; it lasted as long as it could &nbsp; replaced by others with their false&#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-20841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841","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=20841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20896,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20841\/revisions\/20896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}