{"id":75480,"date":"2020-06-28T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75480"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:10:31","slug":"a-wait-game-of-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-wait-game-of-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wait Game of Cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A Wait Game of Cliches<br \/><br \/>Someone has always told me <br \/>\u201cGood things come to those who wait.\u201d<br \/>Nearing fifty I\u2019ve been <br \/>\u201calways a bridesmaid and never a bride.\u201d<br \/>I never chose a wedding cake.<br \/>Heard the cries of a newborn,<br \/>but never called one my own.<br \/>Sometimes destiny is diverted or restricted,<br \/>life fulfillments left unanswered.<br \/>Sometimes no matter how hard the prayers,<br \/>we don\u2019t always receive the wanted answers.<br \/><br \/>Margarette Wahl<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wait Game of Cliches Someone has always told me \u201cGood things come to those who wait.\u201dNearing fifty I\u2019ve been \u201calways a bridesmaid and never a bride.\u201dI never chose a wedding cake.Heard the cries of a newborn,but never called one my own.Sometimes destiny is diverted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75480","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\/1461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75882,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75480\/revisions\/75882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}