{"id":110587,"date":"2022-06-25T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110587"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:53:24","slug":"see-what-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/see-what-you-will\/","title":{"rendered":"See What You Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But did you notice the flowers?&#8221;<br \/>\nasked the man who stopped<br \/>\nto help me fix the flat on my bike<br \/>\nafter I had complained how<br \/>\nmy ride had been ruined.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I had biked nearly fifty miles<br \/>\nchurning hips pounding the pedals<br \/>\neyes steady ahead, thinking only<br \/>\nof the next fifty I wanted<br \/>\nto cover that day.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since, I have noticed<br \/>\nevery bike ride I look around<br \/>\nsee the wildflowers in the ditches<br \/>\nthe planted flowers in the yards<br \/>\nmiles behind me and miles ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Even now, when I look into an image<br \/>\na weatherworn window frame<br \/>\ntucked into its concrete wall and brick<br \/>\nspindling leafless fingers of ivy gripping tight<br \/>\ngiving all the auspices of death &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>But did you notice the blue sky?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 5: Picture]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But did you notice the flowers?&#8221; asked the man who stopped to help me fix the flat on my bike after I had complained how my ride had been ruined. I hadn&#8217;t. I had biked nearly fifty miles churning hips pounding the pedals eyes steady&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110587","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110750,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110587\/revisions\/110750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}