{"id":64236,"date":"2020-06-27T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64236"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:01:08","slug":"how-to-thank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/how-to-thank\/","title":{"rendered":"How to thank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64255\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh how to describe something so big, happy and endless<br \/>\nWithout the joy from all I would be sad and friendless<br \/>\nSo inspiring, their furry friends standing loyal by their side<br \/>\nWIthout their devotion and vigor many would have died<br \/>\nTheir financial support meant so much to my tattered muse<br \/>\nHow could I possibly describe how they rescued me from the blues?<\/p>\n<p>Oh how to thank so many who gave so much to me?<\/p>\n<p>The book is coming to a close, the result of hours of labor<br \/>\nPages bursting with colors and lines of power to savor<br \/>\nTo share the lives of those caught in a great historic struggle<br \/>\nI have to feel their toil, tears and grasp lives in trouble<br \/>\nSo many in different walks of life, so many heartful tales<br \/>\nAll seeking to evade a dreadful killer taking our lives off rails<br \/>\nHow to express the horror and yet the compassion for them all<br \/>\nWhat can I do to climb this towering white literary wall?<\/p>\n<p>Oh how to thank so many who gave so much to me?<\/p>\n<p>I can only do so much in a few short phrases to light the way<br \/>\nI will never forgot those laughter got me through the day<br \/>\nThose who joined together for a project to find the joy in the dark<br \/>\nWho understood the importance of laughing at doom to give a divine spark<br \/>\nThey will be with me forevermore as things draw to a close<br \/>\nI will remember their faces as I draft a final piece of prose<\/p>\n<p>Oh how to thank so many who gave so much to me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh how to describe something so big, happy and endless Without the joy from all I would be sad and friendless So inspiring, their furry friends standing loyal by their side WIthout their devotion and vigor many would have died Their financial support meant so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64236","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\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64271,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64236\/revisions\/64271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}