{"id":112511,"date":"2022-06-25T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112511"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:59:27","slug":"poem-5-the-growing-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-5-the-growing-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 5: The Growing Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the growth of the vine,<br \/>\nTo understand what little time<br \/>\nWe have, under this burning sun,<br \/>\nFor soon you shall see none.<\/p>\n<p>The years shall steal your health and vigour,<br \/>\nWeaken bones and diminish your figure.<br \/>\nBut before you succumb to your earthly grave,<br \/>\nRemember \u2013 hope is not Time\u2019s to enslave.<\/p>\n<p>Fast grows the vine, without consideration<br \/>\nOf the dull, poisonous, creeping trepidation,<br \/>\nAll creatures of a certain age begin to feel,<br \/>\nWhen the shadows of death become too real.<\/p>\n<p>So live as you will, not as you must,<br \/>\nDo all that you can before you turn to dust.<br \/>\nAnd give no mind to the inching of time,<br \/>\nBut seek the wisdom of the growing vine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prompt 5: Image prompt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observe the growth of the vine, To understand what little time We have, under this burning sun, For soon you shall see none. The years shall steal your health and vigour, Weaken bones and diminish your figure. But before you succumb to your earthly grave,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5092],"class_list":["post-112511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022prompt5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511","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\/4348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112555,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511\/revisions\/112555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}