{"id":107622,"date":"2022-06-25T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107622"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:28:11","slug":"the-woods-with-credit-and-gratitude-to-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-woods-with-credit-and-gratitude-to-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"The woods (with credit and gratitude to Robert Frost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow crunches under my feet<br \/>\nwith each step toward the forest path<br \/>\nand above me, fir branches bow,<br \/>\nweighted down with sparkling drifts:<br \/>\nthe woods are lovely, dark and deep.<\/p>\n<p>The moon shines down upon me<br \/>\nand stars twinkle in the sky above.<br \/>\nIn the distance, an owl hoots and<br \/>\nthen takes flight in a flutter<br \/>\nof powerful wings:<br \/>\nthe woods are lovely, dark and deep.<\/p>\n<p>Snowflakes twirl downward,<br \/>\nfluffy and magical,<br \/>\nsettling on\u00a0me, the trees, the ground and<br \/>\nblanketing the world in glistening white:<br \/>\nthe woods are lovely, dark and deep.<\/p>\n<p>Oh to stay here<br \/>\nalways, forever, eternally<br \/>\nto live like a forest creature<br \/>\nalone and sustained<br \/>\nin the bountiful sacredness<br \/>\nin the hush of these woods:<br \/>\nso lovely, dark and deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow crunches under my feet with each step toward the forest path and above me, fir branches bow, weighted down with sparkling drifts: the woods are lovely, dark and deep. The moon shines down upon me and stars twinkle in the sky above. In the&#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-107622","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\/107622","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=107622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107785,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107622\/revisions\/107785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}