{"id":91224,"date":"2021-06-26T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91224"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:35:13","slug":"the-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging into the past<br \/>\nis a literal term when one unearths<br \/>\na time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>Unexpected discovery<br \/>\nin the garden of my new home,<br \/>\nprodded from underneath the dirt<br \/>\nby a tiller.<\/p>\n<p>I expected to find the remains of a pet,<br \/>\nin the rusty metal box.<\/p>\n<p>No pet skeleton under the lid,<br \/>\nbut a skeleton of a different kind.<br \/>\nThe skeleton of joy extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Black and white photos of a young couple.<br \/>\nNewspaper clippings about a wedding.<br \/>\nLetters from an army private in World War II,<br \/>\npostmarked France.<br \/>\nA medal.<br \/>\nAn obituary.<br \/>\nA wedding ring.<\/p>\n<p>She buried her sorrow.<br \/>\nI pray that she found resurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging into the past is a literal term when one unearths a time capsule. Unexpected discovery in the garden of my new home, prodded from underneath the dirt by a tiller. I expected to find the remains of a pet, in the rusty metal box&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91224","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94792,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91224\/revisions\/94792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}