{"id":56368,"date":"2019-06-23T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56368"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:20:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:20:20","slug":"youth-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/youth-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I grow old &#8230; I grow old &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nOver the years I have grown bold<br \/>\nI have sought out new adventures<br \/>\nTried many different sorts of food.<br \/>\nI have traveled many places<br \/>\nWhatever suits my mood.<br \/>\nIn my youth I was very quiet<br \/>\nMy tears fell on the floor<br \/>\nNow that I have grown older<br \/>\nI\u2019m not as emotional as before.<br \/>\nI laugh and smile,<br \/>\nI love to sing<br \/>\nI work with children,<br \/>\nSuch joy they bring.<br \/>\nI aimed for the moon<br \/>\nBut found the stars<br \/>\nLife is good<br \/>\nEven if sometimes bizarre.<br \/>\nSo many things I like to do<br \/>\nI travel, karaoke, bake and write<br \/>\nI would rather keep smiling<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like to fight.<br \/>\n<em>I grow old &#8230; I grow old &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nYet I\u2019m young at heart<br \/>\nLife is good<br \/>\nI don\u2019t doubt my part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Italicized lines are from T.S. Eliot&#8217;s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grow old &#8230; I grow old &#8230; Over the years I have grown bold I have sought out new adventures Tried many different sorts of food. I have traveled many places Whatever suits my mood. In my youth I was very quiet My tears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56368","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\/56368","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56378,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56368\/revisions\/56378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}