{"id":113782,"date":"2022-06-25T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113782"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:30:39","slug":"hour-9-the-color-of-aundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-9-the-color-of-aundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: the color of aundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the humble watermelon<\/p>\n<p>red and juicy in its plumpness<\/p>\n<p>bought in abundance by my father<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>because I was fond of it<\/p>\n<p>brings alive his love and warmth,<\/p>\n<p>recites my parents&#8217; endearing touch<\/p>\n<p>and their wishes of seeing me flourish<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nurturing and nourishing<\/p>\n<p>extravagance and luxury<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we will cut it into slices early<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning looking at each other<\/p>\n<p>smiling and laughing<\/p>\n<p>with newspapers spread on the table<\/p>\n<p>to catch the sweet red drops if they may fall<\/p>\n<p>to not ruin the sofa<\/p>\n<p>to not invite an army of ants<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a tender moment<\/p>\n<p>separate from the rush<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">of never ceasing, pausing, ebbing flow of life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the humble watermelon red and juicy in its plumpness bought in abundance by my father &nbsp; because I was fond of it brings alive his love and warmth, recites my parents&#8217; endearing touch and their wishes of seeing me flourish &nbsp; nurturing and nourishing extravagance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,441],"tags":[5074],"class_list":["post-113782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon2022-halfpoetrymarathon-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113782","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\/4451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113794,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113782\/revisions\/113794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}