{"id":53179,"date":"2019-06-23T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53179"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:38:45","slug":"23-father-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/23-father-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"23. Father Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father<\/p>\n<p>Father<\/p>\n<p>You taught me how to throw a spiral football.<\/p>\n<p>How to play tennis, and golf, and so many other sports I can hardly keep count.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to tennis you are always willing to play.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wish I understood football more, not soccer so much, my younger brother taught me that.<\/p>\n<p>I wish we were closer now that you moved.<\/p>\n<p>You and mom are as far away as you can be, but thanks to technology we can talk and video chat when you are free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve read so many books that I envied your tenacity lovingly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Prophet&#8221; by Kahlil Gibran, Historic novels by James Michener, even &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One day I&#8217;ll get to them all&#8230;or at least a few.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;ll take up a basketball game when my body heals and celebrate the Raptors winning the championship&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved copyright (c) 2019 Natasha Vanover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Father You taught me how to throw a spiral football. How to play tennis, and golf, and so many other sports I can hardly keep count. When it came to tennis you are always willing to play. &nbsp; I wish I understood football more,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57971,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53179\/revisions\/57971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}