{"id":72694,"date":"2020-06-27T23:47:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72694"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:47:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:47:27","slug":"prompt-4-dear-grandma-arlene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-4-dear-grandma-arlene\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 4: Dear Grandma Arlene"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Dear Gram:\u00a0\r\n\r\nToday is your birthday and it's been two years since we have not celebrated with you, physically. Grief has made us stronger, haphazardly. Your Spirit still wanders in and out in the mainframe. Do you feel us? Not a day goes by that we don't think of you. It's in our blood, our life force.\u00a0\r\n\r\nDo you recall that poem that I did as a tribute to, for you?\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"_19ik\"><span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">What Love makes us become \r\n<\/span><span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">After Death, Loss is a beautiful, soulful mystery\r\n<\/span><span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">Sometimes turbulent \r\n<\/span><span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">Other times, a light emerges\r\n<\/span><span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">A dream tells us\r\n<\/span>Comforting news<\/pre>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">I have my wishes, some sound cliche but most of all, I wish that I had more time with you. \r\nUnderstanding how important we needed that time, unless it's timed, our life. \r\nI'm foolish in that regard. \r\n\r\nLove always,\r\nMelissa<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"_2cuy _19ii _2vxa\">\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Gram:\u00a0 Today is your birthday and it&#8217;s been two years since we have not celebrated with you, physically. Grief has made us stronger, haphazardly. Your Spirit still wanders in and out in the mainframe. Do you feel us? Not a day goes by that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694","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\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72774,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694\/revisions\/72774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}