{"id":9090,"date":"2015-06-13T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:59:58","slug":"nas-prompt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/nas-prompt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NAS Prompt 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAS\u00a0 Prompt 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wake to a greeting: &#8220;Good Morning&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am a happy and devoted Child of God,<\/p>\n<p>and one of his gifts to me is a husband who greets me<\/p>\n<p>with words in a tone that is pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later the day, a friend seeks truth, &#8220;be honest&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would I do in her shoes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>she is walking a sad road that is similar<\/p>\n<p>but different to the road I&#8217;ve travelled<\/p>\n<p>Feeling inadequate to give her strength<\/p>\n<p>all I can do is describe the moments of hope<\/p>\n<p>we felt at Hospice, when Mom&#8217;s time was dwindling<\/p>\n<p>My friend trusts that she will also find those treasured moments<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And at the close of that day,<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 the after hours of some instances of Grace,<\/p>\n<p>and some wishes for do-overs,<\/p>\n<p>I hear the promise of more challenges and chances tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>by Nancy Ann Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAS\u00a0 Prompt 2 I wake to a greeting: &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; I am a happy and devoted Child of God, and one of his gifts to me is a husband who greets me with words in a tone that is pleasant. &nbsp; Later the day, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,12,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}