{"id":111182,"date":"2022-06-25T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111182"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:27:08","slug":"hour-6-the-dragon-on-the-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-6-the-dragon-on-the-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6: The Dragon on the Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High upon the tallest tree<br \/>\nOn the wooden branches<br \/>\nPerched a dragon<br \/>\nLooking out into the sea<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wings all curled up<br \/>\n(I wonder how big they must be)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s scales gleaming in the rays<br \/>\nOf setting sun scattered through the sea<\/p>\n<p>And I looked and looked at it some more<br \/>\nWhile waiting \u2013 for something to happen<br \/>\nFor it to move or lean or stretch or..<br \/>\nAnything really!<\/p>\n<p>But still it sat with wooden eyes<br \/>\nOn the high branch of the tree<br \/>\nJust, simply, plainly<br \/>\nlooking over the sea when\u2013<\/p>\n<p>The ringing classroom bell brought me back to real life<br \/>\nWhere maths problems were the reality<br \/>\nAnd dragons on branches existed only in crevices of bored minds<br \/>\nImagination fueled by lack of fantasy<\/p>\n<p>With a last look outside the window<br \/>\nI sighed as I moved on to another story<br \/>\nEntirely missing the dragon on the branch<br \/>\nFinally unfurling it&#8217;s wings and flying towards the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High upon the tallest tree On the wooden branches Perched a dragon Looking out into the sea It&#8217;s wings all curled up (I wonder how big they must be) It&#8217;s scales gleaming in the rays Of setting sun scattered through the sea And I looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111235,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111182\/revisions\/111235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}