{"id":101366,"date":"2021-06-27T05:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101366"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:09:44","slug":"hour-21-a-view-from-my-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-21-a-view-from-my-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 21 a view from my childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dylann-hendricks-QrtTcy7Tvzg-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is the view from the roots of tall grasses<\/p>\n<p>or grains grown in rich, black prairie soils<\/p>\n<p>feeding the grasshoppers and me<\/p>\n<p>for eons<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d feel my back heat up from the sunbaked earth<\/p>\n<p>looking up at the sky through the wisps of barley beards<\/p>\n<p>or fox tails<\/p>\n<p>waving to the swallows<\/p>\n<p>from below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the times I knew who my Mother was<\/p>\n<p>holding me in certainty<\/p>\n<p>that I would return again<\/p>\n<p>to this humble position,<\/p>\n<p>staring up at the heads of wheat stocks<\/p>\n<p>when there was nothing left of me but dust.<\/p>\n<p>r. l. elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is the view from the roots of tall grasses or grains grown in rich, black prairie soils feeding the grasshoppers and me for eons &nbsp; i&#8217;d feel my back heat up from the sunbaked earth looking up at the sky through the wisps of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101401,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101366\/revisions\/101401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}