{"id":51478,"date":"2019-06-22T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51478"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:13:55","slug":"speaker-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/speaker-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker for the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely do we get the chance to stand in front of an audience and speak our minds.<\/p>\n<p>I love Dad more than anyone and I\u2019m nervous for when he leaves.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a long way off and it\u2019ll be here before we know it.<\/p>\n<p>If I could have just one more day with him, it would be enough.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be ready for that moment when I can speak for him. I want to represent him well.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is to just get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely do we get the chance to stand in front of an audience and speak our minds. I love Dad more than anyone and I\u2019m nervous for when he leaves. It seems like a long way off and it\u2019ll be here before we know it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51478","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\/1266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51526,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51478\/revisions\/51526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}