{"id":34278,"date":"2017-08-05T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34278"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:32:02","slug":"written-in-the-book-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/written-in-the-book-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"written in the book of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it was a Midwestern lake<\/p>\n<p>circa 1983<\/p>\n<p>we went for a day of fishing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember a photo I took of him<\/p>\n<p>in the water,<\/p>\n<p>only his smiling face with a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I realize now I loved him<\/p>\n<p>what for?<\/p>\n<p>an ease, a gentleness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think we caught a single trout<\/p>\n<p>but the water was cool and refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>the summer\u2019s day basked alongside us,<\/p>\n<p>content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like so many he faded out of my life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>friendships like that are blessings,<\/p>\n<p>smooth stones that kiss feet as<\/p>\n<p>we ford the river of our time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was a Midwestern lake circa 1983 we went for a day of fishing &nbsp; I remember a photo I took of him in the water, only his smiling face with a cigarette. &nbsp; I realize now I loved him what for? an ease, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34311,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions\/34311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}