{"id":75921,"date":"2020-06-28T07:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75921"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:16:42","slug":"prompt-23-hour-23-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-23-hour-23-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 23 hour 23 Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>prompt 23 hour 23<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arthur<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember when he first came to talk to me<\/p>\n<p>in mirrors,<\/p>\n<p>or when we would play cards<\/p>\n<p>or at dinner time<\/p>\n<p>when I would beg my mom to set him a place at table<\/p>\n<p>so he could eat with us<\/p>\n<p>and he was always hungry<\/p>\n<p>and lonely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would call him on my red play phone<\/p>\n<p>and we would talk for hours and hours<\/p>\n<p>about his day<\/p>\n<p>and the adventures he would get up to,<\/p>\n<p>and he must have gotten up to some great adventures!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>over forty years later I met him again<\/p>\n<p>in a Great War Cemetery in France<\/p>\n<p>(Sunken Road Cemetery),<\/p>\n<p>buried near a lad with my daughter\u2019s middle name,<\/p>\n<p>so I know he was \u201creal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur was my relative\u2026<\/p>\n<p>never really imaginary,<\/p>\n<p>just never really visible to anyone else but me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prompt 23 hour 23 &nbsp; Arthur &nbsp; I don\u2019t remember when he first came to talk to me in mirrors, or when we would play cards or at dinner time when I would beg my mom to set him a place at table so he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75928,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75921\/revisions\/75928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}