{"id":107618,"date":"2022-06-25T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107618"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:19:32","slug":"hour-2-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-2-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 (2022)- Spying a Hawk on My Evening Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I amble on my evening walk<br \/>\nBy myself, I do not talk<br \/>\n<strong><em>Between the woods and frozen lake<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI spy a gallant, soaring hawk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe is flying so very high<br \/>\nAgainst the glowing twilight sky<br \/>\nThe dying sun begins to fade<br \/>\nAs he peers down with watchful eye.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He swoops swiftly toward the ground<br \/>\nHis mournful cry the only sound<br \/>\nHis talons scooping up a meal<br \/>\nAway he flies, homeward bound.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this twilight, as my meandering ends<br \/>\nI contemplate, silent thoughts I send<br \/>\n<strong><em>Between the woods and frozen lake<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nA circle of life as nature intends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>The italicized, bold line taken from the Robert Frost poem: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I amble on my evening walk By myself, I do not talk Between the woods and frozen lake I spy a gallant, soaring hawk. &nbsp; He is flying so very high Against the glowing twilight sky The dying sun begins to fade As he peers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115321,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107618\/revisions\/115321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}