{"id":109253,"date":"2022-06-25T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109253"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:26:02","slug":"no-4-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-4-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 4: Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>A family tree should provide open, welcoming arms\r\nLike the shade of leafy branches on a hot summer's day\r\nShelter from the storms of life, the heat of stressful situations\r\nStill allowing light to filter through so you can make your own way\r\n\r\nA family tree is as varied as the many branches growing from sturdy trunks\r\nOffering strength, flexibility, and variety\r\nAll are not the same but are tied to one another\r\nBy familial bonds, biology, and geography\r\n\r\nOccasionally branches fall, break away\r\nUnable to weather the challenges of life\r\nFalling to the ground or driven far from its roots\r\nTo be snatched up as driftwood and thrown into the flames of strife\r\n\r\nOften trees die, families are forgotten\r\nEven though its roots were deep\r\nIt was wrenched from the soil by pestilence or natural disaster\r\nIts exposed rings tell the story even though asleep\r\n\r\nOnce verdant, vibrant, and vigorous\r\nIts stump serves as a table for a child at play\r\nWhose family is just starting to put down roots\r\nIts exposed rings reveal life in its day<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family tree should provide open, welcoming arms Like the shade of leafy branches on a hot summer&#8217;s day Shelter from the storms of life, the heat of stressful situations Still allowing light to filter through so you can make your own way A family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109253","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109766,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109253\/revisions\/109766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}