{"id":110158,"date":"2022-06-25T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110158"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:25","slug":"prompt-5-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-5-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #5: sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the sunflowers are struggling<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I forgot them<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">left them to the summer solstice<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">dirt as hard &amp; dry as hot pavement<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">now they drink greedily<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">water I should have poured<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">days ago sluices over roots<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">they soak it up<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">tall aging ladies<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">guzzling bubbly from pink\u00a0wineglasses<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">picking over cheese &amp; crackers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">talking of oak and tannin<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the sunflowers are silent<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">their wilted leaves hang<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the spaces\u00a0between leaf and stem<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">empty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">thirsty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">waiting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the sunflowers are struggling I forgot them left them to the summer solstice dirt as hard &amp; dry as hot pavement now they drink greedily water I should have poured days ago sluices over roots they soak it up tall aging ladies guzzling bubbly from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110158","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110282,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110158\/revisions\/110282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}