{"id":64684,"date":"2020-06-27T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64684"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:42:58","slug":"dear-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/dear-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 5 Dear Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Mom,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has been\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only last January?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am glad you are gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, I\u2019m sad, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It has been\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A short, long while?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A long, short while?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we celebrated\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The memories of You.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am glad you\u2019re gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death ends suffering!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death\u2014 makes suffering?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am missing you, thou\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your 95 years are through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing to you to let you know\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ll never forget all you\u2019ve done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will you remember all we\u2019ve done?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sincerely and with all my love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I bid you this adieu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your son,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mom, It has been\u2014 Only last January?\u00a0 February? I am glad you are gone. And, I\u2019m sad, too. &nbsp; It has been\u2014 A short, long while? A long, short while? When we celebrated\u2014 The memories of You. &nbsp; I am glad you\u2019re gone. Death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70523,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684\/revisions\/70523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}