{"id":109573,"date":"2022-06-25T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109573"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:53:13","slug":"lloyd-edge-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lloyd-edge-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Edge, in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an endless cycle,<br \/>\nwar,<br \/>\nan attempt at peace,<br \/>\nthe next war.<\/p>\n<p>This one<br \/>\nis supposed to stop the cycle.<br \/>\nI only want to survive it,<br \/>\nget back to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy and I hide in the hay,<br \/>\nlisten to the French farmer talking to the German soldiers.<br \/>\nI wish I could understand.<br \/>\nIs he saying no one&#8217;s here.<br \/>\nHe wouldn&#8217;t be lying. I&#8217;m a no one,<br \/>\nan eighteen-year-old orphan<br \/>\nwho knows horses and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>We stay hidden until the farmer comes,<br \/>\nsays it&#8217;s safe to leave.<br \/>\nHis wife feeds us before we go,<br \/>\nshares their scanty stores.<\/p>\n<p>We live another day.<br \/>\nAnd the war goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an endless cycle, war, an attempt at peace, the next war. This one is supposed to stop the cycle. I only want to survive it, get back to Oklahoma. My buddy and I hide in the hay, listen to the French farmer talking to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109880,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109573\/revisions\/109880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}