{"id":46,"date":"2007-05-09T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-08-23T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:09:55","slug":"a-second-peom-about-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"A second poem about my Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My life has taken a twist,<br \/>\nNever to be the same forever more,<br \/>\nMakes me cry and clinch my fist,<br \/>\nMy heart aches\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it is so sore.<\/p>\n<p>I lost my father from this life,<br \/>\nI loved him so much more than I ever said,<br \/>\nI know he lived his life,<br \/>\nKnowing he was loved\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6even if it was unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Things now are so different,<br \/>\nLike sand flowing through a funnel,<br \/>\nWish someone would give me a hint,<br \/>\nLife is strange\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6like living in a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>I miss my father a lot,<br \/>\nHis laughter and his advice,<br \/>\nA hole in my life has bee shot,<br \/>\nIt hurts me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6like my life is in a vice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to face the fact that he is not longer with us,<br \/>\nThat he isn&#8217;t here to give his love,<br \/>\nHe might wonder what is all this fuss,<br \/>\nWe miss you, dad\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And you still have our love.<\/p>\n<p>What can keep me going everyday,<br \/>\nIt is my wonderful family,<br \/>\nWithout their love each day,<br \/>\nThe only way\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6life can still be happy.<\/p>\n<p>I hope and pray he approves of this poem,<br \/>\nAnd the many more I will write,<br \/>\nI just want anything I write to do him justice,<br \/>\nI want him to be proud of me\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6to do this right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Life My life has taken a twist, Never to be the same forever more, Makes me cry and clinch my fist, My heart aches\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it is so sore. I lost my father from this life, I loved him so much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad","category-life","category-writingpoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}