{"id":96491,"date":"2021-06-26T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96491"},"modified":"2021-07-06T14:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T18:38:20","slug":"rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Idaho, some twenty-years ago, I chanced upon a moldy, old high school beau,<\/p>\n<p>A forest ranger in rubber gumboots with forty-something, middle-aged spread<\/p>\n<p>(Acknowledging old girl friends from more than a while ago engenders dread)<\/p>\n<p>with yellow hair graying, and eyes no longer that exact shade of periwinkle blue.<\/p>\n<p>For time does cloud the vision of old flames, for I\u2019m surely likewise not the same.<\/p>\n<p>His heart didn\u2019t skip a beat; he didn\u2019t hear me call his name and sounded retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Idaho, some twenty-years ago, I chanced upon a moldy, old high school beau, A forest ranger in rubber gumboots with forty-something, middle-aged spread (Acknowledging old girl friends from more than a while ago engenders dread) with yellow hair graying, and eyes no longer that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96491","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104131,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96491\/revisions\/104131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}