{"id":107473,"date":"2022-06-25T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107473"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:29:51","slug":"tidying-the-path-with-apologies-to-r-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/tidying-the-path-with-apologies-to-r-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidying the Path (with apologies to R. Frost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbor&#8217;s geriatric rock band has packed up. It&#8217;s late in the day, but it&#8217;s summer and there&#8217;s still plenty of light up ahead. The afternoon pause in activity is packaged in silence, ringing louder in the wake of the Jefferson Airplane. A young, cheeky squirrel attacks the suet, but is easily, if momentarily, discouraged. There are millions and billions and jillions of tiny cedar cones covering the warming ground. I hear an eagle&#8217;s high-pitched voice. <em>The only other sound&#8217;s the sweep<\/em> of my broom clearing the flagstone path.<\/p>\n<p>Swainson&#8217;s thrush \u2014<br \/>\nits song spirals up<br \/>\nsomewhere else<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our neighbor&#8217;s geriatric rock band has packed up. It&#8217;s late in the day, but it&#8217;s summer and there&#8217;s still plenty of light up ahead. The afternoon pause in activity is packaged in silence, ringing louder in the wake of the Jefferson Airplane. A young, cheeky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107473","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107782,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107473\/revisions\/107782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}