{"id":25229,"date":"2016-08-13T21:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25229"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:40:53","slug":"poem-no-13-sophia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-no-13-sophia\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem no.13: Sophia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing since: May 15, 1970 from Chicago, Illinois<br \/>\nAge: 62 years old<br \/>\nClothing\/jewelry: A cocktail dress and jewelry <\/p>\n<p>She tries the dress on carefully;<br \/>\nSmooths the fabric with careful fingers,<br \/>\nTwists and turns before the glass.<br \/>\n\u201cI like it\u201d she says<br \/>\nAnd lifts the room with a quiet, shy smile.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ll take it, please. Just wrap it for me here.\u201d<br \/>\nThe dress is blue:<br \/>\nA scattering of cornflowers marks the neck and hem.<br \/>\nThe colour of her eyes.<br \/>\nI tell her this and watch her smile again.<br \/>\n\u201cMy favourite flower\u201d she says.<br \/>\n\u2018My husband buys them for our anniversary.\u201d<br \/>\nI wrap the dress.<br \/>\nHide matching gloves inside the heavy folds.<br \/>\nShe lifts the package, smiles, and walks away. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Anne McMaster 2016 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing since: May 15, 1970 from Chicago, Illinois Age: 62 years old Clothing\/jewelry: A cocktail dress and jewelry She tries the dress on carefully; Smooths the fabric with careful fingers, Twists and turns before the glass. \u201cI like it\u201d she says And lifts the room&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25236,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions\/25236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}