{"id":98252,"date":"2021-06-26T22:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98252"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:18:54","slug":"imagination-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/imagination-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"imagination graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the younger generation<br \/>\nZ or X or millennials<br \/>\nare coupling without children,<br \/>\nbegets now terminated at begot<\/p>\n<p>we can only imagine our grandchildren now<br \/>\ntheir births and birthdays<br \/>\nholiday presents and road trips<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making a cake for my granddaughter<br \/>\nshes&#8217; named after me, you know<br \/>\nand I drew hopscotch on the sidewalk in chalk for her to play<\/p>\n<p>yesterday I built a blanket fort<br \/>\nunder the ping pong table<br \/>\nfor my grandson,<br \/>\nI named him Jack<\/p>\n<p>I slept in that fort last night<br \/>\nuntil my hips hurt from the floor<br \/>\nand I had to go to the bathroom;<br \/>\nat least imaginary grandchildren aren&#8217;t disturbed by my midnight rumblings<\/p>\n<p>perhaps if we had taken things<br \/>\nlike climate change and school shootings<br \/>\nmore seriously<br \/>\nour children would want children<\/p>\n<p>instead, we use our imagination<br \/>\nthat pretended the problem wasn&#8217;t ours<br \/>\nto pretend to have grandchildren that are<br \/>\nfigments too young to go mad,<br \/>\ntoo soon to go sad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the younger generation Z or X or millennials are coupling without children, begets now terminated at begot we can only imagine our grandchildren now their births and birthdays holiday presents and road trips I&#8217;m making a cake for my granddaughter shes&#8217; named after me, you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98252","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98416,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98252\/revisions\/98416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}