{"id":48337,"date":"2019-06-22T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48337"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:10:31","slug":"48337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/48337\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 4<\/p>\n<p>There is something wonderful about the way<br \/>\nyou used to sit with me<br \/>\nin early morning darkness,<br \/>\nboth of us wondering<br \/>\nabout life&#8217;s mysteries.<br \/>\nFour years old<br \/>\nand already you were eager<br \/>\nto seize the world.<br \/>\nThough you did not know it,<br \/>\nyour loyalty touched me.<br \/>\nExcitement raced through me<br \/>\neach time you woke me<br \/>\nin with hushed eagerness,<br \/>\nready to play.<br \/>\nWe spent hours imagining,<br \/>\ncreating,<br \/>\ncontemplating.<br \/>\nTime flew by as the minutes ticked past,<br \/>\nslowly growing closer to 6am.<br \/>\nIn our youth we saw<br \/>\nwhat so many seem to forget:<br \/>\nThere are some things<br \/>\nmore important than sleep.<br \/>\nWe were the best of friends,<br \/>\nspending our early mornings<br \/>\nwith games of pretend.<br \/>\nMy brother, you have grown so fast,<br \/>\nbut these memories will last forever.<\/p>\n<p>-h.e.m. 11:00 am <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 4 There is something wonderful about the way you used to sit with me in early morning darkness, both of us wondering about life&#8217;s mysteries. Four years old and already you were eager to seize the world. Though you did not know it, your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337","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\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48461,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48337\/revisions\/48461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}