{"id":91749,"date":"2021-06-26T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91749"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:56:54","slug":"time-capsule-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/time-capsule-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small hands made this.<br \/>\nI can tell, because it\u2019s made of Lego.<br \/>\nAnd the note\u2019s in faded colour.<br \/>\nI think I had these gel pens too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello\u201d say the faded words<br \/>\nThey cannot spell \u2018millennium\u2019.<br \/>\n\u201cI hope you like my unicorn,<br \/>\nI live with my dad and mum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wonder \u2013 should I put this back?<br \/>\nShould it sleep again for decades more?<br \/>\nUntil the hands that trace these coins<br \/>\nDon\u2019t find them so familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I rent the back room here, ground floor.<br \/>\nOne studio flat, a little garden.<br \/>\nThe house partitioned, no space now<br \/>\nFor dad and mum and little Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy here.\u201d<br \/>\nShe writes to me, from childhood.<br \/>\n\u201cMy favourite is the library van!<br \/>\nI think the future will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan may be out these somewhere,<br \/>\nRenting someone else\u2019s home.<br \/>\nI carefully reseal the box,<br \/>\nAnd place it back beneath the loam.<\/p>\n<p>The note I folded, repacked, buried,<br \/>\nBut I kept a little hope behind<br \/>\nA gift to me from this optimistic child<br \/>\nLike myself, in an earlier time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small hands made this. I can tell, because it\u2019s made of Lego. And the note\u2019s in faded colour. I think I had these gel pens too. \u201cHello\u201d say the faded words They cannot spell \u2018millennium\u2019. \u201cI hope you like my unicorn, I live with my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91749","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91776,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91749\/revisions\/91776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}