{"id":107504,"date":"2022-06-25T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107504"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:51:57","slug":"winter-solstice-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/winter-solstice-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter solstice (hour 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The darkest evening of the year<\/p>\n<p>winter solstice nips my ear<\/p>\n<p>big bulky parka should I wear<\/p>\n<p>perhaps furry, to confuse a bear?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snow and ice brush my face<\/p>\n<p>I miss its fresh, clean feel, and lace<\/p>\n<p>of snowflakes falling in the space<\/p>\n<p>of my backyard, such brief embrace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For I now live in Texas\u2019s slow fire<\/p>\n<p>a snow day be my one desire<\/p>\n<p>it only comes but once in a while<\/p>\n<p>to freeze my day and make me smile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Credit first line: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The darkest evening of the year winter solstice nips my ear big bulky parka should I wear perhaps furry, to confuse a bear? &nbsp; Snow and ice brush my face I miss its fresh, clean feel, and lace of snowflakes falling in the space of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107504","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109010,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107504\/revisions\/109010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}