{"id":27778,"date":"2016-08-14T05:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27778"},"modified":"2016-08-14T05:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T09:53:18","slug":"hour-21-18-30pm-19-30pm-prompt-genre-letter-start-with-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-21-18-30pm-19-30pm-prompt-genre-letter-start-with-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 21) 18.30pm-19.30pm. PROMPT, genre: \u201cletter \/ start with dear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>times like these<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">dear M\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">at times like these : my thoughts turn : once again<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">would i have been happier : if i remained here : if i never met : never loved : never lost : you : if i stayed : where i grew up : like so many of my friends : &amp; married a girl : i went to school with : &amp; did some kind of work : farm work : or in a vineyard : i suppose : i don\u2019t really know : had my quota of kids : my house : my mortgage : coached a local sports team : lived : my share : of the Australian dream<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">if those five years : with you : never happened : if my heart : didn\u2019t ache \u2014 every day for what i lost<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">for that madness : that glory : that intoxication : that honey : that sunshine : that bird wing : that waterfall : that beehive buzz : that cigarette burn : that sea salt : that sugar rush : that open door : that glimpse of white ; that spark rising from the fire = that leaf in the stream = that droplet that prisms a rainbow = that unique flake of snow = that light in the sky = that helicopter seed = that dandelion ball = the morning dew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>times like these dear M\u2014\u2014\u2014 at times like these : my thoughts turn : once again would i have been happier : if i remained here : if i never met : never loved : never lost : you : if i stayed : where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2034,2019,31,10,1628],"class_list":["post-27778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-dear","tag-letter","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27793,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/27793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}