{"id":112723,"date":"2022-06-25T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112723"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:15:56","slug":"the-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-collector\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">he watched over them<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">his collection of robin eggs<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">blue and gray<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">sometimes speckled<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">a dozen eggs filled his heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">he didn\u2019t know if they were fertilized<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">but it\u2019s not like he cared about all that<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">every morning he counted the eggs<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">one, two, three<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ten, eleven &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">this morning one was missing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">his perfect collection ruined by a single chick<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">he smashed the other eleven<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">and tossed the chick outside<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">he watched over their remains<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">he hated that they were fertilized<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he watched over them his collection of robin eggs &nbsp; blue and gray sometimes speckled a dozen eggs filled his heart &nbsp; he didn\u2019t know if they were fertilized but it\u2019s not like he cared about all that &nbsp; every morning he counted the eggs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4909,2937],"class_list":["post-112723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-prompt8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112723","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\/1487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112746,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112723\/revisions\/112746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}