{"id":110061,"date":"2022-06-25T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110061"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:25","slug":"fragments-of-an-afternoon-hour-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/fragments-of-an-afternoon-hour-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragments of an Afternoon-Hour 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting outside<\/p>\n<p>In my old wooden chair<\/p>\n<p>beneath my Grandfather&#8217;s Oak.<\/p>\n<p>My own space of solitude.<\/p>\n<p>I held my hardback on my lap.<\/p>\n<p>It dangled precariously<\/p>\n<p>a creased page<\/p>\n<p>begging for my return.<\/p>\n<p>I sipped on Chardonnay<\/p>\n<p>The day fragrant and misty<\/p>\n<p>The late afternoon silence<\/p>\n<p>comforting, cradling me<\/p>\n<p>A sunflower caught my eye<\/p>\n<p>In nearly full bloom<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the stream of sunlight<\/p>\n<p>It ducked, waved<\/p>\n<p>It spun a perfect pirouette<\/p>\n<p>I clapped involuntarily in response<\/p>\n<p>The wine glass hitting the pavement<\/p>\n<p>Shattering into a thousand purple fragments<\/p>\n<p>that caught the sunlight,<\/p>\n<p>Glittering, glistening<\/p>\n<p>I let the wine seep into the cracks<\/p>\n<p>Staining the cobblestone<\/p>\n<p>Delighting a stream of ants<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting outside In my old wooden chair beneath my Grandfather&#8217;s Oak. My own space of solitude. I held my hardback on my lap. It dangled precariously a creased page begging for my return. I sipped on Chardonnay The day fragrant and misty The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110061","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110284,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110061\/revisions\/110284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}