{"id":65011,"date":"2020-06-27T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65011"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:51:39","slug":"4-conversations-with-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/4-conversations-with-my-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"4.  CONVERSATIONS WITH MY BROTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at opposite sides of the world,<\/p>\n<p>but never apart.<\/p>\n<p>Distance makes fonder, the heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, amusing adventures, we have shared.<\/p>\n<p>Standing united, through thick and thin, we have dared.<\/p>\n<p>To school, we would walk together.<\/p>\n<p>a quick game of Pac-man before school to enter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are different, but of the same gene pool.<\/p>\n<p>With your company, the soccer and cricket grounds, we would rule.<\/p>\n<p>Any difference of opinion between ourselves we would resolve,<\/p>\n<p>but never into a fight would, it devolve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At university, our own digs, together we had.<\/p>\n<p>and a car that always needed fixing, that would drive us mad.<\/p>\n<p>Living on our own, together we learned independence,<\/p>\n<p>through all this, you taught me confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To You, my Brother.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike any other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are at opposite sides of the world, but never apart. Distance makes fonder, the heart. &nbsp; Growing up, amusing adventures, we have shared. Standing united, through thick and thin, we have dared. To school, we would walk together. a quick game of Pac-man before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65011","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78215,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65011\/revisions\/78215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}