{"id":103840,"date":"2021-06-30T05:31:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=103840"},"modified":"2021-06-30T05:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T09:59:50","slug":"poem-no-10-nature-heals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-no-10-nature-heals\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem No. 8.  Nature Heals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nature Heals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We do not know enough<br \/>\nAbout how nature heals<br \/>\nTrees protect our climate<br \/>\nGive us life and new cures<br \/>\nWe are still ignorant of truths<br \/>\nSuch as photo-synthesis<br \/>\nIt shows us trees talking to trees<br \/>\nWarning them about disease<br \/>\nTo stay healthy and safe.<\/p>\n<p>When a tree is hit by lightening<br \/>\nIt feels the trauma and it\u2019s body<br \/>\nShakes and shivers, feels the pain<br \/>\nLet us preserve trees, they are life<br \/>\nLet us nurture them and hold them<br \/>\nAnd hug them and respect them<br \/>\nThey have much to give and teach us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Heals We do not know enough About how nature heals Trees protect our climate Give us life and new cures We are still ignorant of truths Such as photo-synthesis It shows us trees talking to trees Warning them about disease To stay healthy and&#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-103840","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\/103840","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=103840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103857,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103840\/revisions\/103857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}