Dear Dad,<\/p>\n
I forgot to ask you \r\n- Parent to parent -\r\nWhat was the point?\r\nI don\u2019t understand.\r\nYou were a hardworking and diligent person.\r\nYou found honor in providing for your family.\r\nWhy so mean? So unapproachable? \r\nSo.... juvenile?\r\nWe weren\u2019t in a competition, \r\nand I want you to know that.\r\nI don\u2019t know what kind of competition \r\nWe could be in fairly.\r\nBut let me be perfectly clear.\r\nYou didn\u2019t win.\r\nI\u2019m not sure why you didn\u2019t know that.\r\nI\u2019m not sure why you were so sad,.\r\nso bitter.\r\nIt doesn\u2019t matter any more,\r\nunless it does.\r\nIt is still a mystery to me\r\nEven after all these years.\r\nMaybe I\u2019ll write again. \r\nWould you like that?\r\nOr is it still painful to listen to \r\nyour own daughter.\r\nLet me know.\r\nLove, \r\nLaurie\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Dad, I forgot to ask you – Parent to parent – What was the point? I don\u2019t understand. You were a hardworking and diligent person. You found honor in providing for your family. Why so mean? So unapproachable? So…. juvenile? We weren\u2019t in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[2665],"class_list":["post-55972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56057,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972\/revisions\/56057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}