{"id":36909,"date":"2017-08-05T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36909"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:14:42","slug":"dearest-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dearest-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearest Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">Keeping the river in mind<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">I swim to you through<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">time and across the miles<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">to tell you I\u2019ve never forgotten<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">you. And I&#8217;m so grateful for<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">your tutelage\u2014even though<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">I grew up with a different father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">I heard what you said coming along<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">the river, words clear as mountain<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\">sky. I love you \u00a0so, dearest father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping the river in mind I swim to you through time and across the miles to tell you I\u2019ve never forgotten you. And I&#8217;m so grateful for your tutelage\u2014even though I grew up with a different father. I heard what you said coming along the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36909","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40102,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36909\/revisions\/40102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}