{"id":1707,"date":"2026-09-26T19:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:30:22","slug":"life-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/stories-poems-and-snippets\/life-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/26-Sept-2026-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/26-Sept-2026-2.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/26-Sept-2026-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/26-Sept-2026-2-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I am in my sixties, and I\u2019m allowed to have lines.<br>On my face.<br>On my hands.<br>But you can only see the ones on the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t forget there are lines on my heart too,<br>Marks written across my soul.<br>All life\u2019s traumas and headaches.<br>The work, the long hours of commuting.<br>Stress of mortgages and loans.<br>Worry for loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">But if you were to look inside of me,<br>I hope what you see the most<br>Are the smile lines.<br>Because there has always been love in my life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in my sixties, and I\u2019m allowed to have lines.On my face.On my hands.But you can only see the ones on the outside. Don&#8217;t forget there are lines on my heart too,Marks written across my soul.All life\u2019s traumas and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-poems-and-snippets","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madden-brooker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}