{"id":65107,"date":"2020-06-27T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65107"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:24:06","slug":"to-my-grandmother-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/to-my-grandmother-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Grandmother &#8211; Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hej Farmor<br \/>\nI miss you<br \/>\nThough I barely knew you<br \/>\nWe barely spoke<br \/>\nBecause of the language barrier<br \/>\nBut I knew you loved me<br \/>\nAnd I loved you.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to know<br \/>\nThat I can speak Swedish now<br \/>\nNine-years too late perhaps<br \/>\nBut you\u2019re always on my mind when I study Swedish<br \/>\nI wish I had understood the stories of your life<br \/>\nFrom your own words<br \/>\nNot from inherited family photos<br \/>\nNot from the tales your brother told<br \/>\nI wish I had just one conversation with you<br \/>\nThough I guess it\u2019s normal for young children to take their grandparents for granted<\/p>\n<p>You are still in our thoughts<br \/>\nI can tell that my mother and father miss you<br \/>\nWhen they talk about the past<br \/>\nThe gifts that you gave<br \/>\nAre still part of our lives<br \/>\nThe marks you left remain<br \/>\nTill the day we meet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hej Farmor I miss you Though I barely knew you We barely spoke Because of the language barrier But I knew you loved me And I loved you. I want you to know That I can speak Swedish now Nine-years too late perhaps But you\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65107","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65491,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65107\/revisions\/65491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}