{"id":64364,"date":"2020-06-27T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64364"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:33:58","slug":"hour-4-dear-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-4-dear-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4, Dear Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Sue,<\/p>\n<p>Our lives had known so little loss before your death<br \/>\nwe hardly knew how to take it.<br \/>\nYou left a void near impossible to fill,<br \/>\nthough I have tried.<br \/>\nFrom one former single mother to another,<br \/>\nthank you for the son you raised,<br \/>\nand for showing him what a true life partner could be<br \/>\nwhen you found your own.<\/p>\n<p>Some called you a witch<br \/>\nwhen you found water&#8217;s flow beneath the earth<br \/>\nwith your willow rods.<br \/>\nOthers named you horse whisperer,<br \/>\nhealing broken bodies and minds<br \/>\nwith nothing but your gentle touch<br \/>\nand whispered strengthening words.<br \/>\nPerceptive beyond the norm,<br \/>\nsensing both good and danger within,<br \/>\nyou guided and protected all you met.<br \/>\nYour many talents approached<br \/>\nthe occult, yet I never knew<br \/>\na woman both spiritual<br \/>\nand earthbound, before you.<\/p>\n<p>I love you,<br \/>\nmother-in-law.<br \/>\nYou are still here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Sue, Our lives had known so little loss before your death we hardly knew how to take it. You left a void near impossible to fill, though I have tried. From one former single mother to another, thank you for the son you raised,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64364","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64780,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64364\/revisions\/64780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}