{"id":110365,"date":"2022-06-25T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110365"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:18:29","slug":"homecoming-hour-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/homecoming-hour-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming, Hour Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homecoming<\/p>\n<p>An oak a century older than my home<br \/>\npeered sternly over the rooftop at me<br \/>\nas my steps meandered up the front pavement,<br \/>\npast the last sunflower not stolen by squirrels<br \/>\nin my dooryard garden.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped through the front door<br \/>\nand hung my writing satchel<br \/>\non a convenient nail,<br \/>\ninordinately pleased to be enfolded<br \/>\nin my space once more.<\/p>\n<p>With my son&#8217;s mulberry wine in a wineglass<br \/>\nand cheddar cheese on a plate at my elbow,<br \/>\nI settled down with a new hardback<br \/>\nand the evening&#8217;s knitting at my feet,<br \/>\ncontent at the end of another day.*<\/p>\n<p>*Use the words oak, pavement, sunflower, satchel, nail, space, wineglass, cheddar cheese, hardback, knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homecoming An oak a century older than my home peered sternly over the rooftop at me as my steps meandered up the front pavement, past the last sunflower not stolen by squirrels in my dooryard garden. I stepped through the front door and hung my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110365","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123431,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110365\/revisions\/123431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}