{"id":106971,"date":"2022-06-25T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106971"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:36:35","slug":"in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"In the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Months elapse without rain and<br \/>\nthe sun blazes over us,<br \/>\nunrelenting.<br \/>\nThe air is dense and<br \/>\ncrackling dry.<\/p>\n<p>We search the sky for clouds,<br \/>\nfor any hope of change, but<br \/>\nthe deep blue is<br \/>\npainfully endless.<\/p>\n<p>Birds huddle in shady patches<br \/>\nin the sand, their beaks open,<br \/>\ntheir songs muted.<br \/>\nCoyotes lope through<br \/>\nthe ominous dawn,<br \/>\ntheir ribs showing.<\/p>\n<p>We gather inside<br \/>\nin sterile rooms,<br \/>\nair conditioners blowing,<br \/>\nand we watch shows about<br \/>\nNorway and Sweden where<br \/>\nsnows drift high and waterfalls thunder,<br \/>\nwhere rain<br \/>\nis plentiful and<br \/>\nsustaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months elapse without rain and the sun blazes over us, unrelenting. The air is dense and crackling dry. We search the sky for clouds, for any hope of change, but the deep blue is painfully endless. Birds huddle in shady patches in the sand, their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106971","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107016,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106971\/revisions\/107016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}