{"id":9272,"date":"2015-06-13T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:50:57","slug":"7th-hour-this-man-on-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/7th-hour-this-man-on-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"(7th hour) This man on the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This man stands there looking alone, lost and clearly in fear.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes hazed over I say hello no response I guess he cant hear.<\/p>\n<p>I ask if he needs help and nothing comes out when all at once he calls me Gloria now I know he needs his bed<\/p>\n<p>This man on the corner is not deaf he needs help, he has alzheimers I must find his home he needs his meds.<\/p>\n<p>This man on the corner can be you or me, memories lost like the blank stare in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He must be so scared, lost and alone, my dad too has this disease someday&#8217;s he just sits there and cries.<\/p>\n<p>This man on the corner is now in good hands he wears a bracelet with a nursing home address.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve returned him he&#8217;s home at last his wife Gloria says thank you as his hand she does\u00a0 her best to caress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This man stands there looking alone, lost and clearly in fear. His eyes hazed over I say hello no response I guess he cant hear. I ask if he needs help and nothing comes out when all at once he calls me Gloria now I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}