{"id":671,"date":"2012-10-16T01:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2012-10-16T01:32:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:32:41","slug":"the-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/the-old-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Old Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Standing still at the stop<br \/>\nThe old woman tripped<br \/>\nI reached out a tentative hand<br \/>\nShe had a firm grip<br \/>\n\u201cThank you\u201d she said<\/p>\n<p>We stood side by side in the little shade<br \/>\nWatched as the mid-day heat relented<br \/>\nAnd birds took to the skies<br \/>\nShe said nothing<br \/>\nNeither did I<\/p>\n<p>Her silence spoke to me<br \/>\nOf a long life<br \/>\nOf happiness, sadness<br \/>\nOf disaster and redemption<br \/>\nOf failure and success<br \/>\nOf possibilities unencumbered by age<\/p>\n<p>The next bus went nowhere I cared for<br \/>\nShe got on the bus.<br \/>\n\u201cThank You\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>(05-Nov-2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Woman Standing still at the stop The old woman tripped I reached out a tentative hand She had a firm grip \u201cThank you\u201d she said We stood side by side in the little shade Watched as the mid-day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/the-old-woman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,352,372,592,728,827,906,953,1019,1082],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-age","tag-failure","tag-firm","tag-life","tag-old","tag-redemption","tag-sky","tag-success","tag-tripped","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}