{"id":106554,"date":"2022-06-25T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106554"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:14:37","slug":"soaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/soaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lashing down, round hard droplets<br \/>\nSearing, biting cold<br \/>\nStreak from the skies<br \/>\nInto half closed eyes<br \/>\nAnd soak me head to toe<\/p>\n<p>Beating down, icy pebbles<br \/>\nBludgeoning my brow<br \/>\nEach step is done<br \/>\nTo the sound of drums<br \/>\nOn the roadside and my forehead<\/p>\n<p>My clothes have become an ocean<br \/>\nMy filled boots become a sea<br \/>\nThis weather is<br \/>\nStarting to take the piss<br \/>\nIts reaching biblical proportions<\/p>\n<p>When rivers burst their banks<br \/>\nWhen roads get closed<br \/>\nWreckage is strewn<br \/>\nFrom this northern monsoon<br \/>\nI can only think one thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Summer in Scotland Sucks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lashing down, round hard droplets Searing, biting cold Streak from the skies Into half closed eyes And soak me head to toe Beating down, icy pebbles Bludgeoning my brow Each step is done To the sound of drums On the roadside and my forehead My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106554","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106691,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106554\/revisions\/106691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}