{"id":62165,"date":"2020-06-27T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62165"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:52:03","slug":"giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ From afar,<br \/>\nThe world watches<\/p>\n<p>As you smile<br \/>\nAs your energy provokes<\/p>\n<p>One<br \/>\nAfter<br \/>\nAnother<br \/>\nGift,<\/p>\n<p>One<br \/>\nAfter<br \/>\nAnother<br \/>\nFriend<\/p>\n<p>~ Is it you<br \/>\nWho carries The Message<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nThe Message<br \/>\nThat carries you?<\/p>\n<p>~ Friends twining together<br \/>\nFrom across a city<br \/>\nFrom across a state<br \/>\nFrom across a nation<\/p>\n<p>As you become<br \/>\nThe Voice of Reason<br \/>\nof Friendship<br \/>\nof Love<br \/>\nof Food Lovers<br \/>\nof Workers Who Love Food<\/p>\n<p>~ And I watch,<br \/>\nAnd every time I listen,<br \/>\nI wonder:<\/p>\n<p>How<br \/>\nDid you<br \/>\nGet through<br \/>\nThe Grief<\/p>\n<p>To love<br \/>\nTo bind<br \/>\nTo give?<\/p>\n<p>~ Is he in every one of us<br \/>\nWhom you\u2019ve helped,<br \/>\nWhose lives you\u2019ve saved<br \/>\nAfter he could not be?<\/p>\n<p>~ I will tell you this:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve saved my life<br \/>\nSo many times<br \/>\nWith just your ability<\/p>\n<p>To smile<br \/>\nTo live<br \/>\nTo love<br \/>\nAgain<\/p>\n<p>And, somehow,<br \/>\nYou<br \/>\nStill<br \/>\nGive<\/p>\n<p>~ I cannot help but wonder<br \/>\nAt your capacity<\/p>\n<p>When The Truth<br \/>\nOf Love<br \/>\nCan be Tasted<br \/>\nIn the result of a well-crafted dish<\/p>\n<p>When I think of<br \/>\nHow many dishes<br \/>\nYou have salted<br \/>\nWith the love<br \/>\nYou have<br \/>\nGiven<\/p>\n<p>Despite<br \/>\nGrief<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**An homage to Jen Heidenger of Giving Kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ From afar, The world watches As you smile As your energy provokes One After Another Gift, One After Another Friend ~ Is it you Who carries The Message or The Message That carries you? ~ Friends twining together From across a city From across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3442,3472,10],"class_list":["post-62165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-giving-kitchen","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165","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\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62377,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62165\/revisions\/62377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}