{"id":26576,"date":"2016-08-14T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26576"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:04:16","slug":"poem-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-18-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First journey, toward the light and loved ones<\/p>\n<p>First breath of life, a cry<\/p>\n<p>First smile, crooked and unfocused<\/p>\n<p>First steps, unsteady and moving into the world<\/p>\n<p>First words, joyful and unintelligible<\/p>\n<p>First lesson, greedily absorbed, ready for more<\/p>\n<p>First test, study hard, hoping to pass<\/p>\n<p>First drive, hurry, hurry, down the street<\/p>\n<p>First love, hearts pounding, passionate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Final love, years in the making, compassionate<\/p>\n<p>Final drive, life passing by<\/p>\n<p>Final test, all of life&#8217;s experiences are the answers<\/p>\n<p>Final lesson, taught with love, remembered always<\/p>\n<p>Final words, measured and whispered<\/p>\n<p>Final steps, unsteady and feeble<\/p>\n<p>Final smile, weak yet treasured<\/p>\n<p>Final breath, ragged and drawn<\/p>\n<p>Final journey, toward the light and loved ones<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eve Remillard<\/p>\n<p>8\/14\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First journey, toward the light and loved ones First breath of life, a cry First smile, crooked and unfocused First steps, unsteady and moving into the world First words, joyful and unintelligible First lesson, greedily absorbed, ready for more First test, study hard, hoping to&#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":[2071],"class_list":["post-26576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-circleoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26576","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=26576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28558,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26576\/revisions\/28558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}