{"id":28535,"date":"2016-08-14T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28535"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:06:46","slug":"poem-24-the-end-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-24-the-end-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 24- The end at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a journey<\/p>\n<p>Like all journeys<\/p>\n<p>There is a beginning and an end<\/p>\n<p>And now the end has come<\/p>\n<p>I curl up to it and hold it in my heart<\/p>\n<p>I carry the words and the flow and the longing<\/p>\n<p>My back hurts<\/p>\n<p>My head nods<\/p>\n<p>My eyes can no longer see<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the sleep I will enter into<\/p>\n<p>As soon as this is complete<\/p>\n<p>And I slow<\/p>\n<p>Just a tad<\/p>\n<p>My companion Duke the cat<\/p>\n<p>Slumbers without me<\/p>\n<p>My bed calls to me<\/p>\n<p>And I will end this marathon here<\/p>\n<p>In a cautious and grateful<\/p>\n<p>Good night, good morning and good Lord I am glad it is done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a journey Like all journeys There is a beginning and an end And now the end has come I curl up to it and hold it in my heart I carry the words and the flow and the longing My back hurts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28585,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions\/28585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}