{"id":69189,"date":"2020-06-27T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69189"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:56:24","slug":"miss-you-hour-8-prompt-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/miss-you-hour-8-prompt-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss You (hour 8, prompt 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Heat shimmered at the treeline<br \/>\nLike a veil of magic light<br \/>\nCrickets chirped throughout the field<br \/>\nAs day faded into night<br \/>\nThe fireflies came out to play<br \/>\nAs stars scattered &#8216;cross the sky<br \/>\nI sat down with my memories<br \/>\nAnd looked up with a sigh<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I miss you, I whispered to the stars<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve been gone so very long<br \/>\nIt seems a lifetime&#8217;s passed since then<br \/>\nAnd, damn, everything is wrong<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;d give to talk to you<br \/>\nTo feel your booming voice<br \/>\nTo hear you say &#8220;right fucking on&#8221;<br \/>\nAs if there were a choice<br \/>\nTo know everything was right, again<br \/>\nThat nothing left was wrong<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;d give to have my brother back<br \/>\nFor you to not be gone<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tears flooded down my face<br \/>\nTill I couldn&#8217;t see the moon<br \/>\nAs I walked away, I whispered<br \/>\n&#8220;Tell the rest I miss them, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Rest in Paradise. \ud83d\udda4<br \/>\n~Mandy Kocsis\u00a92020~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat shimmered at the treeline Like a veil of magic light Crickets chirped throughout the field As day faded into night The fireflies came out to play As stars scattered &#8216;cross the sky I sat down with my memories And looked up with a sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2309,3657,680,2937],"class_list":["post-69189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour8","tag-mandysland","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-prompt8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69189","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\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69189\/revisions\/69225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}