{"id":50213,"date":"2019-06-22T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50213"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:08:13","slug":"i-wish-i-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-wish-i-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish I knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark <\/p>\n<p>I wish I knew<br \/>\nA million years ago<br \/>\nwhat I know today<br \/>\nwith the world<br \/>\nspinning faster<br \/>\nthousands of years go by every day<br \/>\nhow many millions of years ago was it<br \/>\nthat I sat in the forest and listened to<br \/>\nthe crow say hello, hello, how are you?<br \/>\nhow many thousands of years ago was it<br \/>\nthat I lost my mother?<br \/>\nmy child?<br \/>\nmy brother?<br \/>\nwas it a hundred years ago or a thousand or more that I was hit by a car?<br \/>\nall time and space have lost their place<br \/>\nin the immensity of the global events<br \/>\nbut I recall when the I touched the tree bark<br \/>\nand saw the mushrooms sprout with joy<br \/>\nI know that that was millions of years ago<br \/>\nand in a dimension far far away <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew Virginia Carraway Stark I wish I knew A million years ago what I know today with the world spinning faster thousands of years go by every day how many millions of years ago was it that I sat in the forest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2375,52],"class_list":["post-50213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-201-poetry-marathon","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50314,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions\/50314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}