{"id":109870,"date":"2022-06-25T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109870"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:15:56","slug":"hour-5-summer-stories-painted-winter-daydreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-5-summer-stories-painted-winter-daydreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; Summer stories paint winter daydreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I skip barefoot across the pavement,<br \/>\nIgnoring your warnings.<br \/>\n&#8220;Watch for nails!&#8221; you cry.<\/p>\n<p>But when the sunflowers are in bloom,<br \/>\nI am invincible, and the oak tree<br \/>\nkeeps calling my name.<\/p>\n<p>I dance in the space beneath its<br \/>\nboughs and tell stories of princesses<br \/>\nwho never needed a prince.<\/p>\n<p>Knitting tales of knights who ride<br \/>\nwolves rather than steads, I create<br \/>\nwitches with secrets too beautiful to speak.<\/p>\n<p>The butterfly wings drip with gold<br \/>\nand the grass still smells like morning,<br \/>\nbut I do not count the hours as they pass;<\/p>\n<p>For the taste of imagination is sweet<br \/>\non my tongue and my eyes see truths<br \/>\ntime will teach me not to trust.<\/p>\n<p>But here, under the branches<br \/>\nof the oak tree, I know that dreams<br \/>\nare the stories we decide to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I skip barefoot across the pavement, Ignoring your warnings. &#8220;Watch for nails!&#8221; you cry. But when the sunflowers are in bloom, I am invincible, and the oak tree keeps calling my name. I dance in the space beneath its boughs and tell stories of princesses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109870","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\/4030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110166,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109870\/revisions\/110166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}