{"id":64513,"date":"2020-06-27T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64513"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:45:27","slug":"shuddering-down-hour-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shuddering-down-hour-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuddering Down &#8211; Hour Four\/Prompt Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a little over three years.<br \/>\nCan you believe how fast they\u2019ve gone?<br \/>\nIt feels like yesterday that we all spent the day at the Aquarium<br \/>\nYou, in your wheelchair, laughing at the fish and the sloth<br \/>\nYou, in a fresh ballcap, struggling with English<br \/>\nYou, clicking your teeth and twiddling your beautiful brown hands,<br \/>\nthe ones like West Texas mountains,<br \/>\nthat must be busy once again<br \/>\nMowing God\u2019s lawn<\/p>\n<p>Your death contracted our family<br \/>\nSandwiched the generations down<br \/>\nto a mere 30 years\u2019 difference<br \/>\nWe are shuddering down, like an old wheezing Datsun<br \/>\nChildless, niece-less, nephew-less<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve built a moat<br \/>\nWe are an island<br \/>\nSole witnesses to the hardening<br \/>\nof my blessed saint<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a little over three years. Can you believe how fast they\u2019ve gone? It feels like yesterday that we all spent the day at the Aquarium You, in your wheelchair, laughing at the fish and the sloth You, in a fresh ballcap, struggling with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64513","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\/1453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64852,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64513\/revisions\/64852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}