{"id":101565,"date":"2021-06-27T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101565"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:05:51","slug":"hour-13-of-24-my-own-swan-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-13-of-24-my-own-swan-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"(Hour 13 of 24) \u201cMy own swan lake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a young boy, my earliest memories,<\/p>\n<p>were of feeding the swans at the lake,<\/p>\n<p>with father, mother, and me,<\/p>\n<p>Those croutons I cast away with wanton abandon,<\/p>\n<p>flinging far and wide without a care in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, I returned again to my swan lake,<\/p>\n<p>not to feed them, but to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p>Orphaned too early,<\/p>\n<p>had to grow up in a hurry,<\/p>\n<p>innocence curtailed; experience inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alone now as I ever was,<\/p>\n<p>I revert to childhood pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>Diminished in body, but a mind still with purpose,<\/p>\n<p>I serve my swans again.<\/p>\n<p>with a child\u2019s delight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young boy, my earliest memories, were of feeding the swans at the lake, with father, mother, and me, Those croutons I cast away with wanton abandon, flinging far and wide without a care in the world. &nbsp; As an adult, I returned again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101565","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101743,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101565\/revisions\/101743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}