{"id":74711,"date":"2020-06-28T04:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74711"},"modified":"2020-07-25T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:22:41","slug":"more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/more\/","title":{"rendered":"More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman I know<br \/>\nmid-fifties<br \/>\nwent protesting<br \/>\nfirst timer<\/p>\n<p>missing out as<br \/>\nteenager<br \/>\nwith strict parents<br \/>\nshe wanted<br \/>\n\u2018self-fulfillment\u2019<br \/>\nwanted understanding<br \/>\nof what had been<br \/>\nnever missed<\/p>\n<p>Seeing her a few<br \/>\ndays later I<br \/>\nasked if she found<br \/>\nwhat she<br \/>\nhad been seeking<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes and no\u201d she<br \/>\nsmiled,<br \/>\nruefully<br \/>\n\u201cI fell in with a<br \/>\ngroup of<br \/>\ncollege kids who<br \/>\npoured milk<br \/>\non my face\u201d<br \/>\nquickly adding<br \/>\n\u201cfor the tear gas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her voice trailed.<br \/>\n\u201cit wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nat all<br \/>\nabout me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<br \/>\nShe beseeched<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease tell me<br \/>\nthat I really didn\u2019t<br \/>\ngo there for me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded again<br \/>\n\u201cI think you did\u201d<br \/>\nas she frowned<br \/>\n\u201cNow, here you are.\u201d<br \/>\nI concluded<\/p>\n<p>We stood there<br \/>\nsilently until a<br \/>\nsummer breeze<br \/>\nkicked up dust<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe you\u2019re right\u201d<br \/>\nshe said, smiling<br \/>\nwith new buoyancy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to need<br \/>\nsome more<br \/>\ngoddamned milk.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2020<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman I know mid-fifties went protesting first timer missing out as teenager with strict parents she wanted \u2018self-fulfillment\u2019 wanted understanding of what had been never missed Seeing her a few days later I asked if she found what she had been seeking \u201cYes and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3940,3442],"class_list":["post-74711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020hr19","tag-2020poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74711","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79453,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74711\/revisions\/79453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}