{"id":50170,"date":"2019-06-22T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50170"},"modified":"2019-06-23T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T20:04:37","slug":"saint-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/saint-tony\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Saint Tony,<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know you are annoyed<br \/>\nAt the title &#8216;saint&#8217;<br \/>\nI do this on purpose<br \/>\nKnowing you will be annoyed<br \/>\nIt tickles me<br \/>\nTo know this will annoy you<br \/>\nIn the afterlife<\/p>\n<p>I do this to remember your fire<br \/>\nTo catch the echoes of it<br \/>\nThe rants against artifice<br \/>\nAnd quiet insistence<br \/>\nIn pointing out injustice<br \/>\nNo one will get out unscathed<br \/>\nAnd everyone will take responsibility<\/p>\n<p>I do this to remember your acceptance<br \/>\nYou walked into huts and buildings and palaces<br \/>\nYou walked holy ground<br \/>\nYou walked battlefields<br \/>\nYou walked hunting trails<br \/>\nYou walked escape routes<br \/>\nEveryone allowed to be exactly who they were<\/p>\n<p>I do this to remember your curiosity<br \/>\nPeople you met yesterday<br \/>\nInvited you to try new foods<br \/>\nThey took you into kitchens<br \/>\nAnd you marveled at process and ingredients<br \/>\nEvery strange and new thing<br \/>\nWas met with a desire to know<\/p>\n<p>I do this to remember your sincerity<br \/>\nYoung chefs placed dishes before you<br \/>\nMy bet their hearts skipped a beat<br \/>\nAs you called them &#8216;chef&#8217; with the same tone<br \/>\nAs those seasoned and experienced<br \/>\nYou greeted the recovering addict and the world leader<br \/>\nWith the same deference and respect<\/p>\n<p>I do this because<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not here<br \/>\nSo I try to keep my fire<br \/>\nI strive to be accepting<br \/>\nI hold onto curiosity<br \/>\nAnd struggle to remain sincere<br \/>\nTo be at least half the human being you were<\/p>\n<p>Dear Saint Tony in your mercy<br \/>\nHear my prayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Saint Tony, Yes, I know you are annoyed At the title &#8216;saint&#8217; I do this on purpose Knowing you will be annoyed It tickles me To know this will annoy you In the afterlife I do this to remember your fire To catch the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50170","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50178,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50170\/revisions\/50178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}