{"id":35477,"date":"2017-08-05T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35477"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:39:35","slug":"hour-seven-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-seven-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven, Inside Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reversed<\/p>\n<p>I held his large, gnarled hand<br \/>\nand knew unconditional love<br \/>\nand safety as I gazed<br \/>\nupward at my father&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>My well-being depended<br \/>\non the strength of this one person,<br \/>\nreliable and unfailingly kind, his<br \/>\nlightly seamed face smiling down at me.<\/p>\n<p>The years passed, and I grew,<br \/>\nchild to adult, but Dad<br \/>\nremained my hero, always<br \/>\nknowing the right words to say,<br \/>\nembodying all that a father should<br \/>\nand could be, until the day<br \/>\nthat he could no longer remember<br \/>\nmy name, nor fully grasp my hand.<\/p>\n<p>Now he smiles up at me, his heavily seamed<br \/>\nface still, in lucid moments, reliable and kind.<br \/>\nThe past strength of this one person<br \/>\ngave me my own sense of eternal well-being.<\/p>\n<p>I gaze downward at my father&#8217;s face<br \/>\nsafely resting in his reclining bed<br \/>\nand feel unconditional love<br \/>\nas I hold his curled, and somehow smaller, hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reversed I held his large, gnarled hand and knew unconditional love and safety as I gazed upward at my father&#8217;s face. My well-being depended on the strength of this one person, reliable and unfailingly kind, his lightly seamed face smiling down at me. The years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35607,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions\/35607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}