{"id":50599,"date":"2019-06-22T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50599"},"modified":"2020-09-15T01:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T05:36:58","slug":"consequential-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/consequential-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequential Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-some years ago we ran<br \/>\nBarefoot through the rain<br \/>\nRode the river rocks<br \/>\nDown the creek again, and again<br \/>\nDrove through mountains<br \/>\nWind blowing in our hair<br \/>\nChased fireflies and<br \/>\nCounted falling stars and then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-some years ago we ran<br \/>\nHeadlong into reality<br \/>\nDrove hours to see family<br \/>\nChanging diapers in the car<br \/>\nChasing toddlers<br \/>\nThrough the store<br \/>\nCounting hours<br \/>\nBetween feedings and then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Forty-some years ago we<br \/>\nLost our way<br \/>\nThrough life<br \/>\nStruggled to<br \/>\nMake sense of anything<br \/>\nLonged to be whole again<br \/>\nWandered aimlessly<br \/>\nThrough heartache and then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-some years ago we<br \/>\ntried again to make<br \/>\nBroken lives function<br \/>\nSearched for our<br \/>\nLost &#8216;inner child&#8217;<br \/>\nFound the child<br \/>\nWe had forgotten<br \/>\nAgain denied them space, then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-some years ago<br \/>\nWe found new hope<br \/>\nLove to be explored<br \/>\nGreater Love to be shared<br \/>\nFamily to blend<br \/>\nHearts to mend<br \/>\nBrokenness to surrender<br \/>\nWe stood barefoot taking vows, and now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today we stand as three<br \/>\nAnd we are whole in Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-some years ago we ran Barefoot through the rain Rode the river rocks Down the creek again, and again Drove through mountains Wind blowing in our hair Chased fireflies and Counted falling stars and then&#8230; Fifty-some years ago we ran Headlong into reality Drove hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50599","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52408,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50599\/revisions\/52408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}