{"id":103832,"date":"2021-06-30T05:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=103832"},"modified":"2021-06-30T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:59:11","slug":"poem-no-7-the-bougainvillaea-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-no-7-the-bougainvillaea-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem No. 6 The Bougainvillaea Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<p><strong>The Bougainvillaea Tree<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My sister Usha has a Bougainvillaea tree<br \/>\nPeople come from far to see her Bougainvillaea \u00a0tree<br \/>\nIt is the envy of her neighbours<br \/>\nFriends sing her praises and call her \u2018Green fingers\u2019<br \/>\nIt is 50 years old fed and watered like her baby<br \/>\nShe has written a book on its history and care<br \/>\nGrafted to three different plants it\u2019s her<br \/>\nPride and joy with a history kept in a photo album.<\/p>\n<p>Even famous people visit her<br \/>\nThe chief minister of her state<br \/>\nAmitabh Bacchan and his wife<br \/>\nShe has photos and autographs<br \/>\nTo add to her accolades<br \/>\nThe Bougainvillaea has made her famous!<br \/>\nMe too as I am her sister!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\n<div data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bougainvillaea Tree My sister Usha has a Bougainvillaea tree People come from far to see her Bougainvillaea \u00a0tree It is the envy of her neighbours Friends sing her praises and call her \u2018Green fingers\u2019 It is 50 years old fed and watered like her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103832","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\/1703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103854,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103832\/revisions\/103854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}