{"id":76113,"date":"2020-06-28T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76113"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:37:41","slug":"evolutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/evolutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditions inspire, bond<br \/>\nfamilies, generations<br \/>\ncreating memories<br \/>\na longing to return to<\/p>\n<p>a time, place of some<br \/>\nsignificance or comfort<br \/>\nthose moments that shape<br \/>\nus, our relationships<\/p>\n<p>For all the ritual and<br \/>\ncookie-cutter nature to<br \/>\nfamily traditions they<br \/>\nnever remain the same<\/p>\n<p>traditions, families change<br \/>\npeople added, subtracted<br \/>\nwe all just grow older.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving used to mean<br \/>\nvariations on classic foods<br \/>\nfollowed by family football<\/p>\n<p>marrying in to a large clan<br \/>\nmeant big games, all-in<br \/>\nintensity and bragging rights<\/p>\n<p>going head-to-head with<br \/>\nnieces and nephews<br \/>\nfirst as kids, then as teens<br \/>\nthen as adults \u2013 they grew<br \/>\nwe also got older, slower<\/p>\n<p>The younger generation got<br \/>\nmarried, started having kids<br \/>\nlost the \u2018oomph\u2019 for football<br \/>\nuntil their kids got a bit older<br \/>\nrequiring less supervision<br \/>\nmore involvement with<br \/>\nthe rest of us<\/p>\n<p>My own kids now grown<br \/>\nunmarried<br \/>\nMe? I have risen to the<br \/>\npinnacle of family football<br \/>\nprowess \u2013 all-time QB<br \/>\nfor both teams, replacing<br \/>\nfootball-retired, bad knee<br \/>\nbrother-in-law<\/p>\n<p>Changing of the guard<br \/>\nyou might say<br \/>\nthe more things change<br \/>\nthe more they stay the same<\/p>\n<p>change is also tradition<br \/>\na holiday worth celebrating<br \/>\nin its own right<\/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>Traditions inspire, bond families, generations creating memories a longing to return to a time, place of some significance or comfort those moments that shape us, our relationships For all the ritual and cookie-cutter nature to family traditions they never remain the same traditions, families change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[3910,3442],"class_list":["post-76113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2020hr18","tag-2020poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113","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=76113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79424,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76113\/revisions\/79424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}