{"id":22640,"date":"2016-08-13T17:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22640"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:02:36","slug":"prayers-for-the-jogger-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prayers-for-the-jogger-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for the Jogger  # 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers for the Jogger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace and watch over me,<\/p>\n<p>Angel with a low sexy voice.<\/p>\n<p>I can hear it now, you saying my name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas O&#8217;Brien was found on a gravel path,<\/p>\n<p>Saxon Woods, June 16th, just twelve noon.<\/p>\n<p>A jogger came upon him dead, immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I call your wife on your birthday.<\/p>\n<p>She says she looks forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>We laugh easily as if you are in the next room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a closed casket, sitting atop<\/p>\n<p>The eight-by-ten color glossy photo,<\/p>\n<p>The boys on their Triumphs, summer of &#8217;69.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are with Charlie and maybe<\/p>\n<p>Our child who needed to be born another time.<\/p>\n<p>Love to your Father, tell him the Mets look good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas leaves behind his wife, mother,<\/p>\n<p>Brother, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews, and<\/p>\n<p>Friends that will talk of him until the day they die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayers for the Jogger &nbsp; Rest in peace and watch over me, Angel with a low sexy voice. I can hear it now, you saying my name. &nbsp; Thomas O&#8217;Brien was found on a gravel path, Saxon Woods, June 16th, just twelve noon. A jogger&#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-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","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=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22685,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions\/22685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}