{"id":38018,"date":"2017-08-05T19:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38018"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:37:39","slug":"a-place-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-place-where\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place Where"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Place Where<\/p>\n<p>I often reminisce about my red-brick row home<br \/>\non pencil-thin Sylvester Street where there still is<br \/>\na nearby concrete alley where all the<br \/>\nneighborhood children used to gather, a place<br \/>\nof seemingly-infinite security where<br \/>\nwe played in peace few of us fully appreciated when<br \/>\nwe were young, a place in time I am sure you<br \/>\nwould like, a place where even today you\u2019d have<br \/>\nfun playing catch while listening to<br \/>\nrock n\u2019 roll music on the radio. I go<br \/>\nthere annually to relive my past. One year, there<br \/>\nwere some childhood friends I met there. They<br \/>\nshared their fond memories with me. Have<br \/>\nyou such a place in your past, a place to<br \/>\nreturn to when you need to wax nostalgic? Take<br \/>\nmental inventory of the places you<br \/>\nlived as a child, places where you knew you fit in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Place Where I often reminisce about my red-brick row home on pencil-thin Sylvester Street where there still is a nearby concrete alley where all the neighborhood children used to gather, a place of seemingly-infinite security where we played in peace few of us fully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38018","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38021,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38018\/revisions\/38021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}