{"id":44270,"date":"2017-08-12T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=44270"},"modified":"2017-08-12T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:10:01","slug":"hour-23-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-23-6\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bracelet<\/p>\n<p>Jewelry not one of your things<br \/>\nBut you appreciated the effort to keep you safe<br \/>\nI gave you the bracelet for your 76th birthday<br \/>\nTo show your allergy to penicillin<br \/>\nWhen I gave it to you it had a picture of Elvis in it<br \/>\nA young man leaning against a car&#8230;he hadn\u2019t\u2019 even died yet<br \/>\nYou wore the bracelet every day since you weren\u2019t welding anymore<br \/>\nIt wouldn\u2019t get in your way driving the bus.<br \/>\nIt might someday keep you safe from a doctor<\/p>\n<p>I wanted the bracelet back and got it that day as mom slid your wedding ring onto her finger before we drove out to the cemetery<br \/>\nThe family asked me why<br \/>\nI told them it was for the child<br \/>\nYour bracelet in pocket for later<br \/>\nI rang my finger across the cold metal as we stood near you grave<br \/>\nBack at the house, I gave the bracelet to the child<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure she doesn\u2019t remember<br \/>\nShe probably doesn\u2019t even have it any longer<br \/>\nBut since she was also allergic I thought she could use it or just keep it to remember you<br \/>\nAs I do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bracelet Jewelry not one of your things But you appreciated the effort to keep you safe I gave you the bracelet for your 76th birthday To show your allergy to penicillin When I gave it to you it had a picture of Elvis in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270","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\/1139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44271,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44270\/revisions\/44271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}