{"id":34136,"date":"2017-08-05T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34136"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:15:10","slug":"just-die-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/just-die-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Die Already  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So sorry. He <strong>passed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Passed by? \u00a0Passed over? \u00a0Passed through? \u00a0Passed out?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He<strong> passed on<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Passed on the promotion?\u00a0 Passed on the second helping?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry. I need more than a preposition.<\/p>\n<p>Passed on to what?<\/p>\n<p>A new job? \u00a0Another life?<\/p>\n<p>Passed on to where?<\/p>\n<p>A new town?\u00a0 Another dimension?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No. He <strong>passed away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Away from what? Away from whom?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He <strong>passed away from life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a complete sentence.<\/p>\n<p>So sorry. I understand now.<\/p>\n<p>Life if hard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; So sorry. He passed. Passed by? \u00a0Passed over? \u00a0Passed through? \u00a0Passed out? &nbsp; He passed on. Passed on the promotion?\u00a0 Passed on the second helping? I\u2019m sorry. I need more than a preposition. Passed on to what? A new job? \u00a0Another life? Passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34136\/revisions\/34646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}