{"id":69207,"date":"2020-06-27T17:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69207"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:00:53","slug":"just-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/just-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Just this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just this<\/p>\n<p>Mother, snap out of your lethargy<br \/>\nand hold hands with this poem.<br \/>\nI anticipate your home-coming;<br \/>\ndo not return without songs<br \/>\nin your mouth.<br \/>\nThere are many empty cottages<br \/>\nin a sullen sky<br \/>\nfor grief to rest on a treeline.<br \/>\nDo not marvel at this:<br \/>\nstrange plants grow<br \/>\nin a barren garden.<br \/>\nMother, do not bottle up your woes.<br \/>\nMask your body with smiles<br \/>\nmeant to heal \u2013<br \/>\na wild smile for forlornness.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to walk a deficient distance<br \/>\nin the heat of the moment;<br \/>\nobey this poem, nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this Mother, snap out of your lethargy and hold hands with this poem. I anticipate your home-coming; do not return without songs in your mouth. There are many empty cottages in a sullen sky for grief to rest on a treeline. Do not marvel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69207","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86328,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69207\/revisions\/86328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}