{"id":32238,"date":"2017-08-05T10:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32238"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:19:06","slug":"2-longing-for-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2-longing-for-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"2. Longing for the Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She will leave her girlish laughter behind<br \/>\nShe cannot take the air with her<br \/>\nShe will not hide her tears but how will she laugh again?<br \/>\nThe smell of ripe guava trees will be forever etched upon her mind<br \/>\nThe sound of the morning rooster will ring in her head<br \/>\nThey will never understand the grief of leaving her old wooden house behind<br \/>\nThe warmth of the kitchen in the cold mornings<br \/>\nAgainst the cold cement and red marble floor will remain in her heart<br \/>\nWhen the nights get cold in the city and the longing begins<br \/>\nShe will hold these memories close<br \/>\nLike she does her handmade quilt blanket against her body <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She will leave her girlish laughter behind She cannot take the air with her She will not hide her tears but how will she laugh again? The smell of ripe guava trees will be forever etched upon her mind The sound of the morning rooster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[454],"class_list":["post-32238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-longing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32238","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32260,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32238\/revisions\/32260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}