{"id":37919,"date":"2017-08-05T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37919"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:34:22","slug":"the-closest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-closest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Closest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Christmas<\/p>\n<p>I gave you a Zippo lighter<\/p>\n<p>with the ace of spades<\/p>\n<p>engraved upon its metal case.<\/p>\n<p>It was custom ordered,<\/p>\n<p>a connection to your dead daddy.<\/p>\n<p>After unwrapping your gift,<\/p>\n<p>your hands and voice were shaky.<\/p>\n<p>That was the closest<\/p>\n<p>I ever came<\/p>\n<p>to seeing you cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Christmas I gave you a Zippo lighter with the ace of spades engraved upon its metal case. It was custom ordered, a connection to your dead daddy. After unwrapping your gift, your hands and voice were shaky. That was the closest I ever came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37919","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\/1022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37983,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37919\/revisions\/37983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}