{"id":55410,"date":"2019-06-23T04:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55410"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:11:20","slug":"prompt-18-dear-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-18-dear-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #18 Dear Death,"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><em><strong>Dear Death,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>How have you been?<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>it's been a while<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>have you come to collect some souls?<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It's not my time yet...<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>but, while you're still here...<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Join me for a strong coffee<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I imagine your work must be killing - no pun intended .<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56301\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56301\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1547978073-0a3ef7ff2270-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1547978073-0a3ef7ff2270-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1547978073-0a3ef7ff2270-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1547978073-0a3ef7ff2270-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-1547978073-0a3ef7ff2270.jpg 1489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">img &#8211; DDP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre><em><strong>Tell me what does dying feel like?<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Where do you take the souls of the dead?<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Does time wear you down like it does the living?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Do you have a soul?<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>If given the chance to be anything other than death\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>what would you chose to be?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>-Janice Raquela Mendonca\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Death,\u00a0 How have you been? it&#8217;s been a while have you come to collect some souls? It&#8217;s not my time yet&#8230; but, while you&#8217;re still here&#8230; Join me for a strong coffee I imagine your work must be killing &#8211; no pun intended &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58716,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410\/revisions\/58716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}