{"id":75735,"date":"2020-06-28T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75735"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:00:25","slug":"a-letter-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-letter-18\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little darling,<br \/>\nyou will hear these stories as you grow<br \/>\nof how you were born at a time<br \/>\nwhen the world as I knew it fell<br \/>\nand unseen powers waged war<br \/>\nHow the days lengthened into months<br \/>\nas nurses ran from bed to bed<br \/>\nin slow motion under fluorescent lights<br \/>\nto a soundtrack of cries and coughs<\/p>\n<p>How the rich lived with doors closed<br \/>\nand the poor could not breathe outside<br \/>\nhow some gave up everything they had<br \/>\nso that another could see tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>How I feared for you looking at numbers<br \/>\nwatching even the strongest break<br \/>\nas heartless regimes plundered what was left<br \/>\nleaving nothing in their wake<\/p>\n<p>How we learnt to hold hands across distances<br \/>\nto speak through our eyes<br \/>\nto stop and wonder where we were<br \/>\nwhat a miracle it was to be alive<\/p>\n<p>How I stood unsure when fear arrived<br \/>\nbut faced it, every day in the dark<br \/>\nhow I loved you better for all of it<br \/>\nfor the hope you bring to my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little darling, you will hear these stories as you grow of how you were born at a time when the world as I knew it fell and unseen powers waged war How the days lengthened into months as nurses ran from bed to bed in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75805,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75735\/revisions\/75805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}