{"id":111711,"date":"2022-06-25T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111711"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:20:14","slug":"the-gardener-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-gardener-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He stands on the porch<br \/>\nsurveying the landscape<\/p>\n<p>Years of churning soil<br \/>\nplanting watering fertilizing<\/p>\n<p>They say women turn to gardening<br \/>\nin the years after childbearing<\/p>\n<p>But in this household<br \/>\nthe role reversed<\/p>\n<p>My husband the laborer<br \/>\ngiving birth, nurturing, coddling<\/p>\n<p>Until now each plant can stand<br \/>\non its own, propagate families<\/p>\n<p>The universe did not provide<br \/>\ngrandchildren in our lives<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we sit out each night<br \/>\nlook out over the blooming expanse<\/p>\n<p>Take compliments from strangers<br \/>\npassing by enjoying the beauty<\/p>\n<p>My husband guffaws as I beam<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s all his doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proud PawPaw<br \/>\nHis family fills the yard<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Gardener-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"man standing on a porch\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Gardener-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Gardener-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Gardener-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Gardener.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 7: Look on your phone and find the 10th non-selfie picture and use that as your prompt.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He stands on the porch surveying the landscape Years of churning soil planting watering fertilizing They say women turn to gardening in the years after childbearing But in this household the role reversed My husband the laborer giving birth, nurturing, coddling Until now each plant&#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-111711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111711","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=111711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111981,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111711\/revisions\/111981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}