{"id":113859,"date":"2022-06-25T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113859"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:36:17","slug":"hour-nine-before-the-pines-were-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-nine-before-the-pines-were-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR NINE ~ Before The Pines Were Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BEFORE THE PINES WERE GONE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>lost under the heavy snow-covered branches<\/p>\n<p>we saw the fort was mostly built already<\/p>\n<p>a slanting roof and long walls<\/p>\n<p>only a door was still needed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we built whatever was necessary with mittens on<\/p>\n<p>we covered the open door in a picnic blanket<\/p>\n<p>(each season calls forth a new meaning)<\/p>\n<p>until it was twilight, we were frozen wild<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then with red cheeks and noses<\/p>\n<p>we toddled in out of the icy dark, shaking off snow<\/p>\n<p>and always we were met by the same reliable mug<\/p>\n<p>of warm, comforting hot cocoa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEFORE THE PINES WERE GONE &nbsp; lost under the heavy snow-covered branches we saw the fort was mostly built already a slanting roof and long walls only a door was still needed &nbsp; we built whatever was necessary with mittens on we covered the open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113877,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113859\/revisions\/113877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}