{"id":87769,"date":"2021-06-26T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87769"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:14","slug":"a-cowboy-rides-away-hour-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-cowboy-rides-away-hour-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cowboy Rides Away &#8211; Hour One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87861\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karl-bewick-E_Ewm1eyShc-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He rides off into the sunset once more<br \/>\nA journey filled with some regret<br \/>\nA trailblazer, of sorts, that rode shore to shore<br \/>\nHe thinks back to those that he met<br \/>\nThe dreamers, the doers, the crazies, the plain<br \/>\nThe strangers, the divas, the friends<br \/>\nBut come this day&#8217;s end, now never again<br \/>\nWill the road be where his life depends<\/p>\n<p>His saddle shall be hung by fire at day&#8217;s parting<br \/>\nHis boots by the door, at long last<br \/>\nHis eyes shall point towards a future that&#8217;s dawning<br \/>\nWith just memories of days in the past<br \/>\nAwaiting, his love, ever patient and kind<br \/>\nE&#8217;er grateful his journey concludes<br \/>\nFor tho, she has always been on his mind<br \/>\nDistance oft marred their life&#8217;s interludes<\/p>\n<p>The day and the cowboy shall ride off at last<br \/>\nTho parting is not left in sorrow<br \/>\nHis time from his love is now all but past<br \/>\nAnd he looks towards a brighter tomorrow<br \/>\nA place in the clouds, nestled warm and dry<br \/>\nWhere, at last, he shall always remain<br \/>\nSo much can be said for that life that&#8217;s passed by<br \/>\nAs the cowboy rides home once again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; He rides off into the sunset once more A journey filled with some regret A trailblazer, of sorts, that rode shore to shore He thinks back to those that he met The dreamers, the doers, the crazies, the plain The strangers, the divas,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[4125,4141,1806,4142],"class_list":["post-87769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2021-poetry-marathon","tag-cowboy-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-western-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87769","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87869,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87769\/revisions\/87869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}