{"id":46815,"date":"2019-06-22T10:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46815"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:56:30","slug":"how-could-i-forget-june-the-9th-a-nonet-hour-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-could-i-forget-june-the-9th-a-nonet-hour-one\/","title":{"rendered":"How Could I Forget June the 9th (A Nonet&#8230;. Hour One)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0June the 9th<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">(How Could I Forget?)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I finally filled the calendars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Birthdays and anniversaries<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Occasions to celebrate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Flipping through the pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It occurred to me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What I missed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Most was<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">YOU<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46951 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SCAN0112-e1561212556708-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SCAN0112-e1561212556708-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SCAN0112-e1561212556708.jpg 551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46987\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PNG-image-3-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PNG-image-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PNG-image-3-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PNG-image-3.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***True story: when I finally sat down and finished filling out my calendars earlier this year (okay, so what if it was mid-March?), I was flipping back through them and realized that I had completely left off June 9th, which is my late husband Rickey&#8217;s DOB (pictured above). He passed away in the fall of 2012. Forgetting his birthday like I did, even almost seven years later, really cut me to the core and hurt my heart. I&#8217;m sure it seems silly to some folks, but it was a major misstep to me personally.****<\/p>\n<p>(A nonet consists of nine lines, with a syllable counts as follows: 9\/8\/7\/6\/5\/4\/3\/2\/1 so the poem appears to &#8216;disappear.&#8217;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0June the 9th (How Could I Forget?) I finally filled the calendars Birthdays and anniversaries Occasions to celebrate Flipping through the pages It occurred to me What I missed Most was YOU &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; ***True story: when I finally sat down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[1204,191,31,2291,2829],"class_list":["post-46815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-grief","tag-loss","tag-love","tag-nonet","tag-rickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46815","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46815"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49595,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46815\/revisions\/49595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}