{"id":55742,"date":"2019-06-23T02:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55742"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:15:30","slug":"hour-18-dear-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-18-dear-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18, Dear Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jane,<\/p>\n<p>How I wish you were here<br \/>\nto have an afternoon tea,<br \/>\nmake sly commentary<br \/>\non the women surrounding us,<br \/>\ntheir transparent wiles<br \/>\nand winning ways:<br \/>\nsuch a penetrating gaze<br \/>\nyou leveled at our small world.<br \/>\nNone were safe from your<br \/>\npithy review.<\/p>\n<p>Minutiae always held meaning<br \/>\nfor you, the smallest detail<br \/>\npainted pictures of a world<br \/>\nsince faded, lessened<br \/>\nby your absence.<\/p>\n<p>The mortification of foolishness,<br \/>\npassion and practicality,<br \/>\nthe misjudgments of hastiness,<br \/>\nthe complexity of appearances,<br \/>\nand the persuasiveness of forgiveness,<br \/>\nin these you were very well versed.<\/p>\n<p>You were taken too soon,<br \/>\ndearest of friends,<br \/>\nbut your legacy for me<br \/>\nonly becomes richer.<\/p>\n<p>Fare thee well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jane, How I wish you were here to have an afternoon tea, make sly commentary on the women surrounding us, their transparent wiles and winning ways: such a penetrating gaze you leveled at our small world. None were safe from your pithy review. Minutiae&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55742","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59098,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55742\/revisions\/59098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}