{"id":50420,"date":"2019-06-22T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50420"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:24:16","slug":"leaving-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/leaving-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The years become seconds<br \/>\nwhen I can&#8217;t find the time<br \/>\nand I remember the minutes<br \/>\nthat I could have made to last forever<br \/>\nwhen two angels lost their wings<br \/>\nto fall and talk to you and me<br \/>\nand point us in the direction<br \/>\nof where we aught to be<br \/>\nDriving down trodden paths<br \/>\nflowers trampled over<br \/>\nthe bleached bones<br \/>\nof what we used to fear<br \/>\nthe myths<br \/>\nwe tried to understand<br \/>\nthe words you or I<br \/>\ndreaded to hear<br \/>\nwhen faced with<br \/>\nthe thrill of the unknown<br \/>\nand the wisdom of the road<br \/>\nThe trip began on<br \/>\nthe first day of creation<br \/>\nthe destination lay<br \/>\non the sixth day of rest<br \/>\nAnd everything in between<br \/>\nUrged us to move forward<br \/>\ninstead I looked behind<br \/>\nI am here now<br \/>\nwhere I wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nwhen you were there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The years become seconds when I can&#8217;t find the time and I remember the minutes that I could have made to last forever when two angels lost their wings to fall and talk to you and me and point us in the direction of where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50420","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\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50473,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50420\/revisions\/50473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}