{"id":53689,"date":"2019-06-22T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53689"},"modified":"2019-06-22T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:51:33","slug":"hour-twelve-ode-my-fathers-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-twelve-ode-my-fathers-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twelve: Ode: My father&#8217;s absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a shadow cast by nothing,<br \/>\na lost god to a crumbling shrine,<br \/>\na forgotten law no one abides,<br \/>\nthe dying breath of a senile king.<br \/>\nYou are there in each poem I write,<br \/>\na ticking metronome no one hears,<br \/>\na constant reminder of the passing years,<br \/>\na distant melody I still can\u2019t find.<br \/>\nYour absence, father, is oft\u2019 passed through<br \/>\nby men who have children of their own.<br \/>\nThey hold me and say I\u2019m not alone<br \/>\nand then leave me again, just like you.<br \/>\nBut other men are easier to miss<br \/>\nthan remembering you, writing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a shadow cast by nothing, a lost god to a crumbling shrine, a forgotten law no one abides, the dying breath of a senile king. You are there in each poem I write, a ticking metronome no one hears, a constant reminder of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53693,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53689\/revisions\/53693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}