{"id":36553,"date":"2017-08-05T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36553"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:15:44","slug":"the-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-road-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not understand the road she walked,<br \/>\nUntil it was my turn to walk it too.<br \/>\nI did not understand how it was,<br \/>\nTo lose a parent so soon.<\/p>\n<p>I did not understand the ache,<br \/>\nThe longing for one more talk.<br \/>\nTo have one more moment you stroke my hair,<br \/>\nOne more shopping walk.<\/p>\n<p>A friend walked the road after me,<br \/>\nI try to help how I can.<br \/>\nKeeping her company as she grieves,<br \/>\nAs she tries to understand.<\/p>\n<p>I understand now the road she walked,<br \/>\nEverything changed that day.<br \/>\nI still long for her again to talk,<br \/>\nTo know I&#8217;ll be okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not understand the road she walked, Until it was my turn to walk it too. I did not understand how it was, To lose a parent so soon. I did not understand the ache, The longing for one more talk. To have one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36563,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions\/36563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}