{"id":64831,"date":"2020-06-27T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64831"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:17:20","slug":"to-my-grandmothers-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/to-my-grandmothers-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"To my grandmothers (Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To my grandmothers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish that the afterlife allowed for letters.<br \/>\nWhy not let some document float to earth,<br \/>\nethereal and mysterious,<br \/>\nbut newsy.<\/p>\n<p>News from two women who died too young.<br \/>\nNews from the grandmothers I never met.<\/p>\n<p>You could fill a page with memories for me:<br \/>\nhow you did laundry<br \/>\nand cooked meals<br \/>\nand fell in love.<\/p>\n<p>You could tell me about you.<br \/>\nDid you sing off-key?<br \/>\nDid you read books by candlelight?<br \/>\nDid you love lilacs and spring rains?<\/p>\n<p>Write about what made you happy<br \/>\nand what made you sad.<\/p>\n<p>Most important, let me know if you can see me.<br \/>\nDid you know when I was born?<br \/>\nDid you know <em>that<\/em> I was born?<\/p>\n<p>Send me a hug or<br \/>\nat least put XOXO on the letter<br \/>\nand sign it<\/p>\n<p><em>Love, Grandma<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my grandmothers I wish that the afterlife allowed for letters. Why not let some document float to earth, ethereal and mysterious, but newsy. News from two women who died too young. News from the grandmothers I never met. You could fill a page with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64863,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64831\/revisions\/64863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}