{"id":4263,"date":"2018-01-15T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2018-01-25T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:02:27","slug":"first-step-new-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/first-step-new-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"First Step New Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the sad news broke that Kay was slipping in and out of consciousness, a friend was reading poetry to her and asked us to send some in. I sent this one in, one of my few non rhyming&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Kay Kinghammer RIP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trees are touchable now<br \/>\nFor her, not yet for us<br \/>\nBeyond is another road<br \/>\nFirst step<br \/>\nNew journey<br \/>\nTo a common destination.<\/p>\n<p>As slumbers drift to ebbing voices<br \/>\nPoetry read as if&#8230; Maybe it is?<\/p>\n<p>But others are talking<br \/>\nWho have not been heard in years&#8230;<br \/>\nAll too soon joining that conversation<br \/>\nTo be spoken of by those of us<br \/>\nWho have yet to touch those trees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sad news broke that Kay was slipping in and out of consciousness, a friend was reading poetry to her and asked us to send some in. I sent this one in, one of my few non rhyming&#8230; Kay Kinghammer RIP The trees are touchable now For her, not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3052,120],"tags":[1073,2850,65],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-2","category-non-rhyming-poems","tag-cancer","tag-illness","tag-life-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-16L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/tolerance-is-to-be-practiced-by-other-lands\/","url_meta":{"origin":4263,"position":0},"title":"Tolerance Is to Be Practiced by Other Lands","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Words spoken of tolerance In other lands Not to be practiced Here at home. 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