{"id":65236,"date":"2020-06-27T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65236"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:08:48","slug":"2020-poem-4-prompt-4-write-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/2020-poem-4-prompt-4-write-a-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"2020, poem 4, prompt 4 &#8211; write a letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jean<\/p>\n<p>The pheasant has not been seen since you left us<br \/>\nbut the first time she returns to my garden<br \/>\nI will think of our last conversation,<br \/>\nhow you had laughed at me joking about choking it.<br \/>\nHow dizzy I felt encouraging you to take deep breathes<br \/>\nin through your nose and out 1,2,3,4,5, through your mouth.<br \/>\nIf there\u2019s one good thing to come from your passing<br \/>\nit\u2019s the return of your granddaughter who has felt<br \/>\nthe gulf of being overseas when there is a family crisis.<\/p>\n<p>We are ticking our way, slowly, through the firsts.<br \/>\nFirst Easter,<br \/>\nfirst Mother\u2019s Day,<br \/>\nyour first born<br \/>\nhas had his first birthday<br \/>\nwithout you<br \/>\nand his dad told him he would get his present in heaven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jean The pheasant has not been seen since you left us but the first time she returns to my garden I will think of our last conversation, how you had laughed at me joking about choking it. How dizzy I felt encouraging you to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236","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\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65246,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65236\/revisions\/65246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}