{"id":42752,"date":"2017-08-06T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42752"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:54:50","slug":"all-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/all-three\/","title":{"rendered":"All three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times \u2013 frequent \u2013<br \/>\neven after three decades, more<br \/>\nwhere you wonder what they<br \/>\nwould say, how they would react<br \/>\nto a given moment, my situation<\/p>\n<p>sit-downs full of wisdom never<br \/>\nthe style of any of them<br \/>\nthey lived life, in an honest,<br \/>\nstraightforward way, taking pains<br \/>\nto assure that I did as well<\/p>\n<p>An only child, I was the focus<br \/>\nthe one who learned how to<br \/>\nfish, saw, chop, hammer, build,<br \/>\nplay cards, bowl, love baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Love life, give it your best. Live.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, I still hear a<br \/>\nvoice; dad, Gramps, grandpa Ivar<br \/>\nmixing and matching each to the<br \/>\nsituation at hand, the moment<\/p>\n<p>Long since passed from the scene<br \/>\nI can always rely on what they left me;<br \/>\nfor safekeeping, and to draw on;<br \/>\na whole lot of themselves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a9 2017<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times \u2013 frequent \u2013 even after three decades, more where you wonder what they would say, how they would react to a given moment, my situation sit-downs full of wisdom never the style of any of them they lived life, in an honest,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2726,2728,2727],"class_list":["post-42752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-2017-prompt-23","tag-missing-someone","tag-prompt-23-missing-someone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42752","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42752\/revisions\/42776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}