{"id":27766,"date":"2016-08-14T06:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27766"},"modified":"2016-08-17T19:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:50:27","slug":"the-letter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-letter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grandchildren:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is irony in that the<\/p>\n<p>last thing \u00a0you will ever forget<\/p>\n<p>will be one of your firsts<\/p>\n<p>crush<\/p>\n<p>love<\/p>\n<p>kiss<\/p>\n<p>sex<\/p>\n<p>broken heart<\/p>\n<p>first to never be forgotten<\/p>\n<p>first to stick with you<\/p>\n<p>first to make you feel like that<\/p>\n<p>first to make you hurt<\/p>\n<p>first to make you feel alive<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is less irony, more fact<\/p>\n<p>knowing that the firsts will<\/p>\n<p>teach you the most<\/p>\n<p>honor you the least<\/p>\n<p>cause discomfort<\/p>\n<p>provide perspective<\/p>\n<p>be impossible to explain to others<\/p>\n<p>yet explain everything there is to know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These things I tell you<\/p>\n<p>because they are true<\/p>\n<p>because I know<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Grandpa<\/p>\n<p>P.S.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell your parents<\/p>\n<p>you learned any of<\/p>\n<p>this from me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grandchildren: There is irony in that the last thing \u00a0you will ever forget will be one of your firsts crush love kiss sex broken heart first to never be forgotten first to stick with you first to make you feel like that first to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[1281,2103,1124,2018,2036,1184,1129],"class_list":["post-27766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-grandchildren","tag-hour-21-prompt","tag-letter-poem","tag-letter-to","tag-letters","tag-prompt-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29603,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766\/revisions\/29603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}