{"id":111980,"date":"2022-06-25T15:25:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111980"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:27:10","slug":"fourteen-rocks-hour-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/fourteen-rocks-hour-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Rocks &#8211; Hour Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-112082\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/82B0A2B1-24E0-4D98-824A-BF95EFC6669A-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen rocks, purple orbs<br \/>\nEasily crushed by hand<br \/>\nScooped and shaped, delicately formed<br \/>\nFrom a child&#8217;s box of sand<br \/>\nHours of fun and memories made<br \/>\nWith all the questions born<br \/>\nWere these rocks native to the moon<br \/>\nThat came to earth airborne<\/p>\n<p>Or were they formed beneath the waves<br \/>\nUpon the ocean floor<br \/>\nDid fish toss them while playing catch<br \/>\nUntil they reached the shore<br \/>\nMaybe they snagged a boat or three<br \/>\nOne cannot really say<br \/>\nBut this much is well known to me<br \/>\nThey made a child&#8217;s day<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen pretty purple orbs<br \/>\nEasily crushed by hand<br \/>\nFun memories left to absorb<br \/>\nJust as Mama had planned<br \/>\nChildren stay small but awhile<br \/>\nThose moments all but rare<br \/>\nBut, if sand rocks can make her smile<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time I&#8217;m glad to share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fourteen rocks, purple orbs Easily crushed by hand Scooped and shaped, delicately formed From a child&#8217;s box of sand Hours of fun and memories made With all the questions born Were these rocks native to the moon That came to earth airborne Or were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[680,4880,5141,5142,1806,3456,5143,392],"class_list":["post-111980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-child-poems","tag-childhood-memory-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poems-about-mothers-and-children","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111980","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112093,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111980\/revisions\/112093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}