Well, our time is up, said my shrink with a wink.<\/p>\n
Our little session certainly went in a blink.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve talked about the people but they\u2019re all in the past,<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s good that you let it all out at last.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s all ancient history,<\/p>\n
Like L.P. Hartley* says, it\u2019s a foreign country.<\/p>\n
The future out there is what\u2019s paramount.<\/p>\n
Life is short, so make it count.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You certainly do things differently here, I ventured.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
* \u201cThe past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n (Opening line in The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley, 1953.)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2020 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, our time is up, said my shrink with a wink. Our little session certainly went in a blink. You\u2019ve talked about the people but they\u2019re all in the past, And it\u2019s good that you let it all out at last. But it\u2019s all ancient…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71692","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71703,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71692\/revisions\/71703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}