{"id":92101,"date":"2021-06-26T14:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92101"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:01:09","slug":"reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging weeds in<br \/>\nmy New Orleans garden<br \/>\ndeeply rooted<br \/>\ninterloper<br \/>\ncones up with a tank<br \/>\ndangling from roots<br \/>\na section of gold chain<br \/>\nbracelet, necklace?<\/p>\n<p>three years after<br \/>\nHurricane Katrina<br \/>\nnewly purchased home<br \/>\nI was a transplant<br \/>\nhaving come to help with<br \/>\nregional revovery<\/p>\n<p>It became sadly routine<br \/>\nbroken china<br \/>\na distinct pattern<br \/>\nthough none of the<br \/>\nrecovered pieces ever fit<\/p>\n<p>Later, more casual<br \/>\ndinnerware<br \/>\nlots of silverware<br \/>\nmangled forks, bent spoons<br \/>\na butter knife<br \/>\na gravy ladle<\/p>\n<p>Large bolts<br \/>\nmetal floor joist supports<br \/>\npopped up in our<br \/>\ngarden or lawn<br \/>\nkicked up by lawnower<\/p>\n<p>I kept it all in a tub<br \/>\nin the garage<br \/>\nnot as souvenirs<br \/>\nbut as a remembrance <\/p>\n<p>Recovered artifacts<br \/>\nfrom unwanted<br \/>\ntime capsule<br \/>\nrecent history<br \/>\nbrought to life<br \/>\ntragedy<br \/>\naa sobering,<br \/>\nongoing harvest.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging weeds in my New Orleans garden deeply rooted interloper cones up with a tank dangling from roots a section of gold chain bracelet, necklace? three years after Hurricane Katrina newly purchased home I was a transplant having come to help with regional revovery It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4342,4309],"class_list":["post-92101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour5","tag-2021prompt5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92101\/revisions\/99646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}