{"id":36626,"date":"2016-11-25T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=36626"},"modified":"2016-11-15T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T20:17:51","slug":"to-ethel-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/to-ethel-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"TO ETHEL KELLY"},"content":{"rendered":"

written by VERA P<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Subtle old lady in white knit hat,<\/span><\/p>\n

With bright blue eyes and white hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

You wore blue tennis shoes,<\/span><\/p>\n

And walked away through the woods.<\/span><\/p>\n

You walked away from your 85 years,<\/span><\/p>\n

And walked away from all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

You did not want anybody<\/span><\/p>\n

To see that you were dying.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brave old lady from Mississippi,<\/span><\/p>\n

You lived between trees and cotton fields,<\/span><\/p>\n

And walked away from rules and orders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little old Southern lady,<\/span><\/p>\n

You put on your bright clothes,<\/span><\/p>\n

You walked away to die in the woods.<\/span><\/p>\n

You walk forever, your blue eyes shining<\/span><\/p>\n

In the ultra blue sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

Your white hair is like white clouds,<\/span><\/p>\n

You will walk forever<\/span><\/p>\n

Toward immortality, yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

written by VERA P \u00a0\u00a0 Subtle old lady in white knit hat, With bright blue eyes and white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":36627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[1094,4782,3,753,9537,406],"class_list":["post-36626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-local","tag-poetry","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-to-ethel-kelly","tag-vera-p"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/2016-11-15-to-ethel-kelly.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}