{"id":64297,"date":"2020-06-27T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64297"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:18:18","slug":"when-rock-stars-die-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/when-rock-stars-die-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"When Rock Stars Die in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Keni,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They haven&#8217;t solved your death. I think about you and your last breath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coroner doesn&#8217;t return my calls. No one speaks of your blood splattered on your paintings and walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your dog is happy and with a friend. I have not forgotten you asked me to take her, just in case<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on me you could depend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I should have taken her. That time was a blur. I was pregnant, and shocked and felt the stir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your ex-wife wrote about your love. It was all you wanted to hear, from earth and above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will write about you again. I will read, I will call, pray and pen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Goodnight, rock star,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vita<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hour 4, Prompt 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Keni, They haven&#8217;t solved your death. I think about you and your last breath. The coroner doesn&#8217;t return my calls. No one speaks of your blood splattered on your paintings and walls. Your dog is happy and with a friend. I have not forgotten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[2878,3258,60,552],"class_list":["post-64297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-prompt4","tag-epistolary","tag-hour-4","tag-prompt-4","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64297","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64297\/revisions\/64501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}