{"id":49343,"date":"2019-06-22T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49343"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:58:25","slug":"five-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/five-5\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Year number five, we moved inside the place we&#8217;d live the longest.<\/p>\n<p>My dad and my uncles built it with only the work of their hands,<\/p>\n<p>Often competing to see who was strongest,<\/p>\n<p>Then they built their own places on the edge of our lands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We grew up with all our cousins around<\/p>\n<p>And our great grandparents lived beside us.<\/p>\n<p>They tilled and turned and sowed the ground<\/p>\n<p>They grew corn we could hide in and they never even fussed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I got to see Mema again, at least once every week.<\/p>\n<p>Like most folks in the South, we went on Sundays for tea.<\/p>\n<p>She had moved too, a big house with a creek.<\/p>\n<p>One time, I fell in and my Grandaddy laughed at me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I loved her house, it was safe with a peaceful air.<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted to leave it, I wished that I lived there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343","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\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49613,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49343\/revisions\/49613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}