{"id":97753,"date":"2021-06-26T21:21:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97753"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:22:12","slug":"97753","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/97753\/","title":{"rendered":"Without a Backward Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our appeal went on heeded<\/p>\n<p>Does it matter our sacrifices at his shrine?<\/p>\n<p>Does he not recall the number of times we visited him?<\/p>\n<p>Poured libation to his homage?<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he would not leave without mom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upon the buckets of river<\/p>\n<p>And baskets of kolanut<\/p>\n<p>And thousand of cowries<\/p>\n<p>We offered him<\/p>\n<p>Mr Death insisted on leaving with mom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is he just callous?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it his nature?<\/p>\n<p>Is he cruel?<\/p>\n<p>Is it what he treasures?<\/p>\n<p>To turn deaf ears?<\/p>\n<p>and walk away with loved ones every time<\/p>\n<p>without a backward glance?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our appeal went on heeded Does it matter our sacrifices at his shrine? Does he not recall the number of times we visited him? Poured libation to his homage? Yet, he would not leave without mom &nbsp; Upon the buckets of river And baskets of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97753","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\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97909,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97753\/revisions\/97909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}