{"id":55902,"date":"2019-06-23T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55902"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:55:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:55:10","slug":"hour-18-dear-old-age-and-dear-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-18-dear-old-age-and-dear-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18:  Dear Old Age and Dear Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Old Age,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You scare me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019re the only thing that truly does<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death isn\u2019t the problem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s the slow decline on the way there<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s the decay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disappointment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The endless letting go<\/span><\/p>\n<p>so much work<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Jesus,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I suspect you\u2019ve been reborn, a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0lot<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That you come here all the time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re just too dumb to notice<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Old Age, You scare me You\u2019re the only thing that truly does Death isn\u2019t the problem It\u2019s the slow decline on the way there It\u2019s the decay The disappointment The endless letting go so much work &nbsp; Dear Jesus, I suspect you\u2019ve been reborn,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902\/revisions\/55920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}