{"id":70072,"date":"2020-06-27T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70072"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:46:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:46:37","slug":"visiting-aunt-roseann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/visiting-aunt-roseann\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Aunt RoseAnn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting RoseAnn in the land of In-between<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously sweet and strange<\/p>\n<p>Overstuffed furniture, afghans, Comfortable and cheery.<\/p>\n<p>Her eldest, widowed son&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>90-year-old Rose outlived sisters, brothers, her only daughter, and one of her sons.<\/p>\n<p>Her home with too many steps and too much yard work is where she wants to be.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in the anticipatory state.\u00a0 &#8220;Take me home,&#8221;\u00a0but her sons never do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Home&#8221; is real and metaphorical.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t ready to let go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting RoseAnn in the land of In-between Simultaneously sweet and strange Overstuffed furniture, afghans, Comfortable and cheery. Her eldest, widowed son&#8217;s home. &nbsp; 90-year-old Rose outlived sisters, brothers, her only daughter, and one of her sons. Her home with too many steps and too much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70072","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70561,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70072\/revisions\/70561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}