{"id":108634,"date":"2022-06-25T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108634"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:44:24","slug":"hour-3-beneath-the-hangmans-tree-image-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-3-beneath-the-hangmans-tree-image-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3 &#8211; Beneath the Hangman&#8217;s Tree -Image Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108314\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1911A0BE-6AAA-4407-A11F-EFD4FDF726BF-300x158.jpeg\" alt=\"Red tree against teal sky over magenta grass\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1911A0BE-6AAA-4407-A11F-EFD4FDF726BF-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1911A0BE-6AAA-4407-A11F-EFD4FDF726BF.jpeg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A man stood beneath the tree,<br \/>\nWaiting it seemed, for me<br \/>\nHis gaze was soft as diamond<br \/>\nHis mood as light as iron<br \/>\nHe had been waiting for me<br \/>\nBut why beneath this tree?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This tree was like most around it<br \/>\nRed leaves and branches<br \/>\nBut unlike boughs in woods confounded<br \/>\nThis one stood alone<br \/>\nThe hangman\u2019s noose upon its branch<br \/>\nThe grass around it dead<br \/>\nAnd though I felt fit as a fiddle,<\/p>\n<p>The tree filled me with dread.<\/p>\n<p>I approached the man with care<br \/>\nHe asked me for my name<br \/>\nPerhaps trying to cause a scare<br \/>\nHe asked my silence again<br \/>\nAt last I felt my courage rise<br \/>\nAnd deigned it wise to answer<br \/>\nAnd he nodded, to my surprise,<\/p>\n<p>He Spoke. \u201cBorn the sign of cancer\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How could he know that, I did wonder<br \/>\nThen realization dawned<br \/>\nThis was no man, nor land I lived in<br \/>\nMy life, indeed, was gone.<br \/>\nThe memory threatened to drown me<br \/>\nBut He then took my hand<br \/>\nI left there as Death had found me<br \/>\nAnd guided my soul to the promised land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man stood beneath the tree, Waiting it seemed, for me His gaze was soft as diamond His mood as light as iron He had been waiting for me But why beneath this tree? &nbsp; This tree was like most around it Red leaves and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4906,4979,680,3019,464,51,1226,45,23,410,15,391,10,390,1084,392],"class_list":["post-108634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-2022hour3","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-464","tag-death","tag-endings","tag-hour-3","tag-life","tag-memories","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-writer","tag-writing","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108634","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125136,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108634\/revisions\/125136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}