{"id":91868,"date":"2021-06-26T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91868"},"modified":"2021-07-03T19:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T23:55:04","slug":"these-old-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/these-old-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"These Old Shoes &#8211; hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These old shoes<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019ve felt the road<\/p>\n<p>a cobbled path<\/p>\n<p>the cold winds blowed<\/p>\n<p>afore and aft<\/p>\n<p>on a bridge I once trode.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A scuff here and there<\/p>\n<p>from a trip down some stairs<\/p>\n<p>and a hole in the sole<\/p>\n<p>tells how long I did go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The laces, so worn<\/p>\n<p>a cobbler would scorn<\/p>\n<p>and berate me<\/p>\n<p>still, up hill and down<\/p>\n<p>sometimes with a frown<\/p>\n<p>you could see on my shoes\u2019<\/p>\n<p>tired faces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A smile, I\u2019d see<\/p>\n<p>when I set those soles free<\/p>\n<p>a dip in the pool<\/p>\n<p>beats the races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, 6\/26\/21<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These old shoes they\u2019ve felt the road a cobbled path the cold winds blowed afore and aft on a bridge I once trode. &nbsp; A scuff here and there from a trip down some stairs and a hole in the sole tells how long I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[234,2693,4368],"class_list":["post-91868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-feet","tag-shoes","tag-soles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103994,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91868\/revisions\/103994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}