{"id":76634,"date":"2020-06-28T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76634"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T20:33:20","slug":"the-honor-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-honor-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 24 \u2014 The Honor Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth A. Fleisher<\/p>\n<p>Hour 24<\/p>\n<p>Prompt 24:\u00a0 Write a poem about a gift, real or imagined, fantastical or boring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Honor Gift<\/p>\n<p>I read the note on the Manila envelope,<\/p>\n<p>Smiling at what he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Baffled by the thickness of the package,<\/p>\n<p>I carefully opened it \u2014 and sighed in awe.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were stacks of his CD\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The two we made together,<\/p>\n<p>Some from his early days,<\/p>\n<p>Some new music I hadn\u2019t heard yet.<\/p>\n<p>And at the bottom of all of that,<\/p>\n<p>The book.<\/p>\n<p>I had wanted that book for years,<\/p>\n<p>But other things had been priority.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he had gifted it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Honored me, with all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth A. Fleisher Hour 24 Prompt 24:\u00a0 Write a poem about a gift, real or imagined, fantastical or boring. &nbsp; The Honor Gift I read the note on the Manila envelope, Smiling at what he wrote. Baffled by the thickness of the package, I carefully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76634","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\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79340,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76634\/revisions\/79340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}