{"id":3734,"date":"2014-08-24T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2014-08-24T00:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:17:41","slug":"16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/","title":{"rendered":"#16, Missing Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday.<br \/>\nOr it would have been.<br \/>\nChocolate cake and chocolate milk .<br \/>\nYour safest addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Fun and laughter<br \/>\nTeasing and presents that make you cry and smile<br \/>\nHug us.<br \/>\n&#8220;Your girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dad would kiss you.<br \/>\nYou both so in love you look like teenagers<br \/>\nIll never forget what love looks like<br \/>\nMaybe never live up to the story of your love<br \/>\nThe grandness of it.<\/p>\n<p>Now all that is left is what was.<br \/>\nThree years.<br \/>\nAlmost three you have been gone.<br \/>\nForever and a second in a single heartbeat<\/p>\n<p>The absence in my heart is a sucking wound.<br \/>\nA sink hole in my chest.<br \/>\nYou could fit the Titans in it.<br \/>\nI miss you so<br \/>\nWould give anything to wish you<br \/>\nHappy Birthday to your face.<br \/>\nMake you smile.<\/p>\n<p>All that remains are the memories<br \/>\nOur broken family<br \/>\nAn empty house<br \/>\nFalling into the dirt<br \/>\nRotting.<br \/>\nSpoiled<br \/>\nGone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why did you have to go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday. Or it would have been. Chocolate cake and chocolate milk . Your safest addiction. Fun and laughter Teasing and presents that make you cry and smile Hug us. &#8220;Your girls.&#8221; Dad would kiss you. You both so in love you look like teenagers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}