{"id":99122,"date":"2021-06-27T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99122"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:00:31","slug":"in-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/in-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0In Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papa, Mama, my mentors<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re gone to your rest<\/p>\n<p>My inner one sinks within me<\/p>\n<p>Whenever it dawns on me<\/p>\n<p>That you\u2019re gone, gone, gone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one makes us laugh<\/p>\n<p>like you do, Papa<\/p>\n<p>No one interjects our tales, Mama<\/p>\n<p>With your type of pointed questions:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re you there\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one could ask that question<\/p>\n<p>The way you did<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t rolled on the floor<\/p>\n<p>with laughter as you both provided<\/p>\n<p>we tried but your sense of humor, each<\/p>\n<p>is not one easy to come by<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But your legacy lives, Mama<\/p>\n<p>And your legacy is alive, Papa<\/p>\n<p>No, they cannot die<\/p>\n<p>They will not die<\/p>\n<p>For our children remember you firsthand<\/p>\n<p>And so do their friends<\/p>\n<p>You will live in us for generations<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful ones like you will never die<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In Memory Papa, Mama, my mentors You\u2019re gone to your rest My inner one sinks within me Whenever it dawns on me That you\u2019re gone, gone, gone &nbsp; No one makes us laugh like you do, Papa No one interjects our tales, Mama With your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99122","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\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99639,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99122\/revisions\/99639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}