{"id":96904,"date":"2021-06-26T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96904"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:08:18","slug":"the-urgency-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-urgency-of-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urgency of Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Urgency of Age<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ironic that we slow down<\/p>\n<p>when there\u2019s so much more to do.<\/p>\n<p>Nightmares of running and running,<\/p>\n<p>but never reaching the destination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fear of dying before<\/p>\n<p>the camel ride to Uluru.<\/p>\n<p>Signs over New Zealand and Australia say,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosed for COVID. Try back next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Worry that those French Chateaux,<\/p>\n<p>older than I, will not wait.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll miss sharing that superb bottle of wine,<\/p>\n<p>cellared for a special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Years are precious.<\/p>\n<p>Patience wears thin<\/p>\n<p>between holidays and visits with family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urgency of Age &nbsp; Ironic that we slow down when there\u2019s so much more to do. Nightmares of running and running, but never reaching the destination. &nbsp; Fear of dying before the camel ride to Uluru. Signs over New Zealand and Australia say, \u201cClosed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96904","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96932,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96904\/revisions\/96932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}