{"id":66817,"date":"2020-06-27T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66817"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:44:31","slug":"for-my-birthday-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/for-my-birthday-band\/","title":{"rendered":"for My Birthday Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>for My Birthday Band<br \/><br \/>\u201cLife is a series of surprises and would not be <br \/>worth taking or keeping if it were not.\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson<br \/><br \/>My birthday this year in quarantine.<br \/>I expected no cards or presents.<br \/>I bought my own special cupcake <br \/>and picked up Mexican takeout as my gifts.<br \/><br \/>Unexpected sounds shattered <br \/>my silence of alone.<br \/>As I stepped onto my lawn<br \/>Sammy of The Scaffolds <br \/>in his saxophone element.<br \/>Nicole with tambourine in hand,<br \/>Joanna maraca shaking. <br \/>Mike with a snare drum <br \/>As Andy sang along.<br \/>A balloon to lift my spirits.<br \/>A rendition of Happy Birthday <br \/>at social distances,<br \/>but closer to my heart.<br \/><br \/>Margarette Wahl<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for My Birthday Band \u201cLife is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.\u201d Ralph Waldo Emerson My birthday this year in quarantine.I expected no cards or presents.I bought my own special cupcake and picked up Mexican&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66817","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\/1461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67426,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66817\/revisions\/67426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}