{"id":77482,"date":"2020-06-27T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77482"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:22:36","slug":"the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your husband grabbed the Seahawks flag from outside your front door<br \/>\nand ran down the street with it, blue and green streaming behind him,<\/p>\n<p>you wept.<\/p>\n<p>Because your team just won, just came back from behind,<br \/>\nand at the last possible moment,<\/p>\n<p>they triumphed.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched you, watching your husband take a lap around the block,<br \/>\nI knew the cancer was growing inside you, that your chances of survival,<\/p>\n<p>were slim.<\/p>\n<p>You knew this, you weren&#8217;t only crying with amazement for your team.<br \/>\nYou glimpsed the possibility, impossible though it was,<br \/>\nthat your body could do something miraculous<br \/>\nin the last moments of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your husband grabbed the Seahawks flag from outside your front door and ran down the street with it, blue and green streaming behind him, you wept. Because your team just won, just came back from behind, and at the last possible moment, they triumphed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482","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\/1502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77629,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/revisions\/77629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}