{"id":42993,"date":"2017-08-06T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42993"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:23:00","slug":"what-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YOU WILL BE WHAT I AM<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11742\">Someone read this to us in Latin<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11748\">at writers group tonight, translating<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11597\">as the living do for the dead, as she<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11580\">does for her lover who no longer speaks,<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11756\">who lives in a memory care unit down<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11595\">the street, who once danced and laughed<\/div>\n<div>with their little dog. And tonight I get up<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11587\">and do what must be done, disassemble<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11758\">the books and bookcase, get the giant<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11760\">photo of Willa Cather ready to pry loose<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11762\">from the wall. I do this because we, all of<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11593\">us, must be free to go where we go, in our<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11589\">minds or on our feet, our little feet, no one<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502020982163_11591\">would believe could climb such mountains!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOU WILL BE WHAT I AM Someone read this to us in Latin at writers group tonight, translating as the living do for the dead, as she does for her lover who no longer speaks, who lives in a memory care unit down the street,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43013,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42993\/revisions\/43013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}