{"id":62168,"date":"2020-06-27T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62168"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:09:15","slug":"prompt-hour-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-hour-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Hour One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dee she was, never Doris.<br \/>\nRarely mum or grandma.<br \/>\nJust Dee \u2013 no just about her.<br \/>\nShort, but not a risk you would overlook her.<br \/>\nGlamorous and strong, fiery and fierce,<br \/>\nRight up to the age of 96.<\/p>\n<p>Family by blood or not,<br \/>\nOnce in you stayed,<br \/>\nBut you had better behave,<br \/>\nNo fools suffered here,<br \/>\nHer memory almost as long<br \/>\nAs her rich, full life.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher always,<br \/>\nScience a passion,<br \/>\nArt, music, food she loved,<br \/>\nBut books her weapon of choice &#8211;<br \/>\nTo read, to teach, and then<br \/>\nTo publish.<\/p>\n<p>Headstrong to the end,<br \/>\nCentre of any room.<br \/>\nHer presence larger than she was,<br \/>\nShe would receive visitors majestically &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen appearing with gifts<br \/>\nOf coffee, whisky, cake.<\/p>\n<p>Her long reign now over,<br \/>\nA gap in our hearts and life,<br \/>\nFor Doris, Dee,<br \/>\nSister, wife, mother, aunt,<br \/>\nGrandmother, great-grandmother,<br \/>\nGreat aunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dee Dee she was, never Doris. Rarely mum or grandma. Just Dee \u2013 no just about her. Short, but not a risk you would overlook her. Glamorous and strong, fiery and fierce, Right up to the age of 96. Family by blood or not, Once&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67748,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168\/revisions\/67748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}