{"id":877,"date":"2019-06-25T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wpreunion\/?page_id=877"},"modified":"2022-01-30T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:35:19","slug":"francisco2007","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/?page_id=877","title":{"rendered":"Poems from Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FranciscoNewEdition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FranciscoNewEdition-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"[book]\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FranciscoNewEdition-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FranciscoNewEdition-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FranciscoNewEdition.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"book69\">\n<p class=\"reg\"><em><strong>You Took My Breath Away<\/strong><\/em> (2007, new edition 2021)<\/p>\n<p class=\"reg\">Available at Amazon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Took-My-Breath-Away\/dp\/B09MBXLLJK\/\">Paperback<\/a>, 78 pages,  US$6.99 <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Took-My-Breath-Away-ebook\/dp\/B09QMRGCQK\/\">Kindle<\/a> (eBook),  US$2.99<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/class69reunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/francisco.jpg\" alt=\"[francisco]\" width=\"180\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco at 50-year reunion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"reg\">The poems in this fun-packed book by Francisco Allen (SJC Class of 1969) are about thoughtful, happy and sad times in an era of honesty and innocence. Some were inspired by picture, a word, or an actual event. <em>Tragedy in the Sky<\/em> recalls six Americans and an Israeli astronauts who went up but never made it back. <em>Mount Carmel<\/em> portrays a church in Benque through the people walking to and from that old church, giving us thoughts of our mortality; <em>My Critter Friend<\/em> recalls a breakfast when Francisco was enjoying Johnny cakes baked by his visiting mother. When he saw a squirrel outside searching for food, Francisco walked slowly out of the kitchen and stretched out his hand with a small piece of Johnny cake, which the critter took and then scampered away.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Took My Breath Away (2007, new edition 2021) Available at Amazon: Paperback, 78 pages, US$6.99 Kindle (eBook), US$2.99 The poems in this fun-packed book by Francisco Allen (SJC Class of 1969) are about thoughtful, happy and sad times in an era of honesty and innocence. Some were inspired by picture, a word, or an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/?page_id=877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poems from Francisco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":846,"menu_order":10269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/book.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/877\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.class69reunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}