{"id":106888,"date":"2022-06-25T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106888"},"modified":"2022-06-26T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T01:32:44","slug":"ripples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ripples\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest, tangible<br \/>\nmemories<br \/>\ninvolve falling asleep<br \/>\nwaking up<br \/>\nto the sound of water<br \/>\nwaves lapping at the shore of<br \/>\nHorseshoe Lake<\/p>\n<p>My grandparents retired there<br \/>\nwhen I was seven<br \/>\nmy summer bedroom<br \/>\nevery year<br \/>\nsixty-feet from scraggly beach<br \/>\nwaves gently<br \/>\nslapping sand<br \/>\nlulled me to sleep<br \/>\nmore vociferous swells<br \/>\nsmacking the steel pontoons of<br \/>\ngrandparent&#8217;s boat<br \/>\nmy morning alarm clock<\/p>\n<p>on which I would not have ever<br \/>\never considered<br \/>\nhitting a snooze button <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest, tangible memories involve falling asleep waking up to the sound of water waves lapping at the shore of Horseshoe Lake My grandparents retired there when I was seven my summer bedroom every year sixty-feet from scraggly beach waves gently slapping sand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[4915,4916],"class_list":["post-106888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022-prompt-1","tag-2022-prompt-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106888","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123633,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106888\/revisions\/123633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}