{"id":40690,"date":"2017-08-06T01:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40690"},"modified":"2017-08-06T03:57:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T07:57:08","slug":"unexpected-loss-another-prompt-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/unexpected-loss-another-prompt-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Loss (another prompt 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I wanted to try a Golden Shovel poem from an earlier prompt tonight. I happened to do this one, also on loss.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From W.B. Yeats \u2013 When You Are Old<br \/>\n\u201cBut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The weather was always too hot for you, but<\/p>\n<p>that didn\u2019t stop us from taking joy from the one<\/p>\n<p>thing we loved most&#8211;togetherness. You were such a man.<\/p>\n<p>Afternoons were the times we talked and loved<\/p>\n<p>best. Joy sparkled in our blissful oneness. The<\/p>\n<p>trust in your soft eyes encouraged my pilgrim<\/p>\n<p>spirit, your nurturing fed love into my soul.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt crept between us, yet we parted in<\/p>\n<p>disarray. My heart still beats with a hole in the shape of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to try a Golden Shovel poem from an earlier prompt tonight. I happened to do this one, also on loss. From W.B. Yeats \u2013 When You Are Old \u201cBut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp; The weather was always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1588,191,2122,2648],"class_list":["post-40690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-golden-shovel","tag-loss","tag-vivian","tag-yeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690","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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41077,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40690\/revisions\/41077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}