Famed actor John Barrymore
\nis said to have commented
\nfrom his deathbed
\n“Death is easy.
\nCOMEDY is hard.”<\/p>\n
I can attest to the comedy part
\nwill take Barrymore at his word
\non the moving on as
\ndeath is one of the few
\nthings in life you can
\ndo expertly on first try
\nwithout any practice <\/p>\n
It has also been said
\n‘life is not a dress rehearsal’
\non that point I beg to differ
\nhaving run all my lines
\nI want my center stage moment<\/p>\n
\u2013 Mark L. Lucker Famed actor John Barrymore is said to have commented from his deathbed “Death is easy. COMEDY is hard.” I can attest to the comedy part will take Barrymore at his word on the moving on as death is one of the few things in life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4597,4589],"class_list":["post-98199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021promt13","tag-2021hour13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98199","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99629,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98199\/revisions\/99629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a9 2021
\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"