{"id":26448,"date":"2016-08-14T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2016-08-14T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:22:22","slug":"poem-17-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-17-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always believed that I would recognise her when I saw her again&#8221; *<\/p>\n<p>Would I know her if I saw her walk past me<\/p>\n<p>in her light blue sweater and her feathered hair?<\/p>\n<p>She would look past me, seeing nothing more than an older woman.<\/p>\n<p>But she might be wearing the navy sweater and the jeans and clogs,<\/p>\n<p>laughing with her small circle of friends,<\/p>\n<p>the ever-present book tucked under her arm<\/p>\n<p>to escape the reality of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Would I recognize her if I saw her walk past me,<\/p>\n<p>looking down at the ground if she were alone?<\/p>\n<p>Would I stop her today and tell her to look up<\/p>\n<p>and see where she is going, to smile at strangers,<\/p>\n<p>to share her smile or a kind word with them?<\/p>\n<p>Would I recognize my younger self if I passed her on the street today?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always believed that I would recognise her when I saw her again&#8221; *<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*From\u00a0<em>Abduction<\/em>, by Gillian Jackson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eve Remillard<\/p>\n<p>8\/14\/2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I always believed that I would recognise her when I saw her again&#8221; * Would I know her if I saw her walk past me in her light blue sweater and her feathered hair? She would look past me, seeing nothing more than an older&#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":[],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","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=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26574,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}