{"id":107866,"date":"2022-06-25T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107866"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:37:03","slug":"spring-pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spring-pretending\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s summer now<\/p>\n<p>but I\u2019ll tell you about Spring<\/p>\n<p>Spring<\/p>\n<p>that rambunctious little elf<\/p>\n<p>thought it should flounce around<\/p>\n<p>and act like summer.<\/p>\n<p>Boiling hot<\/p>\n<p>Wind whipping breezes that<\/p>\n<p>Knock you sideways<\/p>\n<p>people with blistering faces<\/p>\n<p>and stirred up mad.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad<\/p>\n<p>when summer arrived<\/p>\n<p>calm and stately<\/p>\n<p>with a little rain and cooler mornings<\/p>\n<p>Pretending to be nice<\/p>\n<p>and then<\/p>\n<p>then<\/p>\n<p>summer thought it should<\/p>\n<p>make up for lost time<\/p>\n<p>and to show Spring how being Summer<\/p>\n<p>was done<\/p>\n<p>sidewalks melted<\/p>\n<p>and even the sun wore sunglasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s summer now but I\u2019ll tell you about Spring Spring that rambunctious little elf thought it should flounce around and act like summer. Boiling hot Wind whipping breezes that Knock you sideways people with blistering faces and stirred up mad. I was glad when summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107866","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\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111386,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107866\/revisions\/111386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}