{"id":3478,"date":"2018-03-19T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2021-02-05T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T00:20:14","slug":"listening-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3478","title":{"rendered":"Listening to my wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofthewrlibrary.org\/\"><em>Friends of the West Roxbury Library<\/em> <\/a>are having their annual April poetry contest. This year&#8217;s theme is listening. Here is the first poem I&#8217;m entering in the contest!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Listening to my wife<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>She tells me this and that<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>She tells me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>again<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>how Pavlik lost his shoes at a concert when she was in college<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>and how<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>he died tragically in a plane crash in Costa Rica<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>it occurs to me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>but for chance<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pavlik might be<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>instead of me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>listening to my wife<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2018 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of the West Roxbury Library are having their annual April poetry contest. This year&#8217;s theme is listening. Here is the first poem I&#8217;m entering in the contest! \u00a0 Listening to my wife She tells me this and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=3478\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}