{"id":2123,"date":"2022-10-11T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:55:47","slug":"from-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/from-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"From a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>missing her mother:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Epitaph<\/p>\n<p>by Merrit Malloy<\/p>\n<pre>\nWhen I die\nGive what\u2019s left of me away\nTo children\nAnd old men that wait to die.\n\nAnd if you need to cry,\nCry for your brother\nWalking the street beside you.\nAnd when you need me,\nPut your arms\nAround anyone\nAnd give them\nWhat you need to give to me.\n\nI want to leave you something,\nSomething better\nThan words\nOr sounds.\n\nLook for me\nIn the people I\u2019ve known\nOr loved,\nAnd if you cannot give me away,\nAt least let me live on in your eyes\nAnd not your mind.\n\nYou can love me most\nBy letting\nHands touch hands,\nBy letting bodies touch bodies,\nAnd by letting go\nOf children\nThat need to be free.\n\nLove doesn\u2019t die,\nPeople do.\nSo, when all that\u2019s left of me\nIs love,\nGive me away.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>missing her mother: &nbsp; &nbsp; Epitaph by Merrit Malloy When I die Give what\u2019s left of me away To children And old men that wait to die. And if you need to cry, Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you. And when you need me, Put your arms Around anyone And give them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-merrit-malloy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}