{"id":162,"date":"2017-01-15T04:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:09:11","slug":"the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=162","title":{"rendered":"The End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After I said \u201cI love you\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you hid your face in your mother\u2019s chest<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and said \u201cI want to see him drive away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI can\u2019t leave yet,\u201d I said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I returned to our classroom <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to move the toys into storage<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and collect my belongings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then suddenly I understood what you meant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I raced down the stairs and outside to the parking lot<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but your car was no longer there.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I stood alone, shivering in the hot August sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want you to watch me drive away,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to control your destiny like a three year old cannot do:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that was how you said \u201cI love you\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Lauren Kelly, 8\/21\/98<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=61\">back to Poetry<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I said \u201cI love you\u201d you hid your face in your mother\u2019s chest and said \u201cI want to see him drive away.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t leave yet,\u201d I said. I returned to our classroom to move the toys into storage and collect my belongings. And then suddenly I understood what you meant. I raced down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}