{"id":94579,"date":"2021-06-26T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94579"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:21:28","slug":"and-i-bid-ye-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/and-i-bid-ye-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Bid Ye Farewell- Hour 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lost City,<\/p>\n<p>For the sand meals I cooked<\/p>\n<p>On childhood playgrounds<\/p>\n<p>For my first day at school<\/p>\n<p>When I took my first steps<\/p>\n<p>For the lifelong friends I made<\/p>\n<p>And the lessons I learnt<\/p>\n<p>The trees I climbed<\/p>\n<p>The pools I swam<\/p>\n<p>Drives to school<\/p>\n<p>Parties with friends<\/p>\n<p>Laughter- as much of it as you let me<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>But I must take my leave of yoou<\/p>\n<p>Because brighter futures await me<\/p>\n<p>Over your mountains and across your seas<\/p>\n<p>I must find the secrets that Life holds for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lost City, For the sand meals I cooked On childhood playgrounds For my first day at school When I took my first steps For the lifelong friends I made And the lessons I learnt The trees I climbed The pools I swam Drives to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94579","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\/3687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96263,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94579\/revisions\/96263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}