{"id":107905,"date":"2022-06-25T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107905"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:37:21","slug":"2-whose-woods-these-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2-whose-woods-these-are\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Whose woods these are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whose woods these are I think I know<br \/>\nor do I?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved this poem.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the only one I remember from grade school years<br \/>\nand can quote lines from even today<br \/>\nthough I found it on my own.<br \/>\nThey didn\u2019t teach poetry at my school.<br \/>\nThe gentle rhyming<br \/>\nthe sing song nature of it<br \/>\nspeaks to me.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery takes me to this forest<br \/>\nthese woods<br \/>\nand I am solitary and at peace for once<br \/>\ntaking a break<br \/>\nwatching snow gently fall and build<br \/>\nlike I used to at my grandmother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>I loved to see the deer make an appearance<br \/>\nin the field that lay before the trees<br \/>\nas they watched and searched for food.<br \/>\nI hoped my uncles didn\u2019t maim or kill them.<br \/>\nThey  seemed like such gentle creatures<br \/>\nonly wanting to live.<br \/>\nAnd I just wanted to pet and hug them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose woods these are I think I know or do I? I\u2019ve always loved this poem. It\u2019s the only one I remember from grade school years and can quote lines from even today though I found it on my own. They didn\u2019t teach poetry at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107905","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\/1578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107916,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107905\/revisions\/107916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}