{"id":98228,"date":"2021-06-26T21:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98228"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:58:52","slug":"never-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/never-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Let Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never Let Go<\/p>\n<p>like a stack of snail mail<br \/>\nand not a single bill<\/p>\n<p>like the scent of your dad\u2019s<br \/>\npipe smoke five years later<\/p>\n<p>like playing poker with a pro<br \/>\nand winning half the hands<\/p>\n<p>like the taste of peach gum<br \/>\nbetter than the fruit<\/p>\n<p>like a flower in your garden<br \/>\nso perfect, it looks fake<\/p>\n<p>like the vivid memory of a mistake<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll never make again<\/p>\n<p>like a smile from a stranger<br \/>\nwhen you needed one most<\/p>\n<p>like your favorite pen<br \/>\nthat keeps writing and writing<\/p>\n<p>like time left on the parking meter<br \/>\nand no ticket on your windshield<\/p>\n<p>like sharing a secret<br \/>\nkept safe with a friend<\/p>\n<p>like learning the hard way<br \/>\nthat alcohol is poison<\/p>\n<p>like your favorite song playing<br \/>\non the radio on your birthday<\/p>\n<p>like texting when talking<br \/>\nis too difficult<\/p>\n<p>like a red rose pressed<br \/>\ninto the family Bible<\/p>\n<p>like the scent of mothballs<br \/>\nin Nana\u2019s closet<\/p>\n<p>like sharing a vanilla cone<br \/>\nwith your poochie best friend<\/p>\n<p>like riding in the back of a pickup<br \/>\nin a warm June breeze<\/p>\n<p>like you and your muse<br \/>\nthinking the same thoughts<\/p>\n<p>like grasping hands<br \/>\nof long goodbyes<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 26, 2021\u00a0 \u00a0Hour 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never Let Go like a stack of snail mail and not a single bill like the scent of your dad\u2019s pipe smoke five years later like playing poker with a pro and winning half the hands like the taste of peach gum better than the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98228","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98235,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98228\/revisions\/98235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}