{"id":1221,"date":"2021-04-14T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:03:42","slug":"a-love-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"A LOVE POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 72\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Age Has Everything to Do With It<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Permission to write this poem, to weave this story.<\/p>\n<p>To hold the hand to touch the narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not all relationships are volatile. Not this one.<\/p>\n<p>Age has everything to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They meet for the first time in a park and it\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She places a cross on the picnic bench, unsure<\/p>\n<p>if it\u2019s necessary. Not knowing she is protected<\/p>\n<p>by organic food and lack of devilish intent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If needed, there is an umbrella; but truth weathers<\/p>\n<p>gray skies and intuition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They break bread and sip jasmine tea. This is love,<br \/>\nor so she reckoned, not just another walk in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>copyright Sherry Quan Lee; from <em>Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age Has Everything to Do With It &nbsp; Permission to write this poem, to weave this story. To hold the hand to touch the narrative. &nbsp; Not all relationships are volatile. Not this one. Age has everything to do with it. &nbsp; They meet for the first time in a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1221\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,219],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-septuagenarian","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}