{"id":1128,"date":"2015-04-02T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1128"},"modified":"2015-04-02T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T00:44:11","slug":"the-old-poet-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1128","title":{"rendered":"The Old Poet (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Old Poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old poet died last night<\/p>\n<p>with the stars shining and<\/p>\n<p>full orange moon quickly rising<\/p>\n<p>he let the wind take him<\/p>\n<p>one last time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old poet has gone<\/p>\n<p>his verse is gone<\/p>\n<p>The meoldy of word that he would cry<\/p>\n<p>like white crests on blue water<\/p>\n<p>they will be no more<\/p>\n<p>the songs of his youth<\/p>\n<p>and the wisdom of his age<\/p>\n<p>the joy of his heart and<\/p>\n<p>the fire of his spirit<\/p>\n<p>all are gone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we are less<\/p>\n<p>for we have lost a bit<\/p>\n<p>of ourselves<\/p>\n<p>our wisdom<\/p>\n<p>does not change<\/p>\n<p>almost granite<\/p>\n<p>wisdom<\/p>\n<p>and our joy can find other<\/p>\n<p>songs<\/p>\n<p>yet somehow<\/p>\n<p>our sorrow increases<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Poet by Marc Mangel &nbsp; The old poet died last night with the stars shining and full orange moon quickly rising he let the wind take him one last time &nbsp; The old poet has gone his verse is gone The meoldy of word that he would cry like white crests on blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1128","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1128\/revisions\/1129"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}