{"id":67872,"date":"2020-06-27T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67872"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:36:17","slug":"the-convo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-convo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Convo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.emojiterra.com\/google\/android-10\/512px\/1f644.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude44 Face With Rolling Eyes Emoji\" width=\"71\" height=\"71\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Have you lost anyone?&#8221; my student asks. &#8220;Has anyone you loved died &#8211; like your parents or your grandparents? Family close to you?&#8221;<br \/>\nI respond honestly, &#8220;No.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Huh,&#8221; she huffs, then turns first her eyes then her head then her body away from me.<br \/>\nWe were done talking.<br \/>\nAnd now I understand why.<br \/>\nHaving lost more than I can count on two hands.<br \/>\nHaving lost track of the losing, lost track of exactly who was third or fourth, fifth or sixth.<br \/>\nIf I could see her now, repeat that conversation, I know she would turn herself to me and lean in and nod, &#8220;Uh-huh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 8: emoji poetry &#8211; adapted from the prompt]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you lost anyone?&#8221; my student asks. &#8220;Has anyone you loved died &#8211; like your parents or your grandparents? Family close to you?&#8221; I respond honestly, &#8220;No.&#8221; &#8220;Huh,&#8221; she huffs, then turns first her eyes then her head then her body away from me. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67872","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68222,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67872\/revisions\/68222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}