{"id":54463,"date":"2019-06-22T22:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54463"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:40:42","slug":"sober-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/sober-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sober Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sober Friend<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grieving without wine<\/p>\n<p>I became the sober friend<\/p>\n<p>Without intention I hear<\/p>\n<p>The ice in their glasses<\/p>\n<p>When I answer the phone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is almost all of them<\/p>\n<p>And I am surprised<\/p>\n<p>Belonging to this club<\/p>\n<p>For years knowing<\/p>\n<p>The phone was a trigger<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thinking I am missing<\/p>\n<p>I try to imbibe only<\/p>\n<p>To find my glass half<\/p>\n<p>Full in the morning<\/p>\n<p>Virtually untouched<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will not go back<\/p>\n<p>As it is a slippery slope<\/p>\n<p>I am only too familiar<\/p>\n<p>Confusing drink with<\/p>\n<p>Sadness I stay clear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TobeTT\u00a0 # 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sober Friend &nbsp; Grieving without wine I became the sober friend Without intention I hear The ice in their glasses When I answer the phone &nbsp; It is almost all of them And I am surprised Belonging to this club For years knowing The phone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54463\/revisions\/54482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}