{"id":114164,"date":"2022-06-25T18:08:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114164"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:28:40","slug":"nose-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nose-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Nose to the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kiwi-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kiwi-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kiwi.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so lonely down here<br \/>\nwhy can&#8217;t I be like other birds?<br \/>\nSoaring through the skies<br \/>\nwind beneath my wings.<\/p>\n<p>I come out at night for a reason<br \/>\nI&#8217;m ashamed to be seen<br \/>\nmy friends Kea and Kakapo<br \/>\nliving the dream.<\/p>\n<p>A flightless Kiwi<br \/>\nnose to the ground<br \/>\nI smell my own fear<br \/>\nof not being off the ground<\/p>\n<p>A national treasure, I can&#8217;t die<br \/>\nprotected from birth<br \/>\nI have my upsides, but dammit<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t fly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so lonely down here why can&#8217;t I be like other birds? Soaring through the skies wind beneath my wings. I come out at night for a reason I&#8217;m ashamed to be seen my friends Kea and Kakapo living the dream. A flightless Kiwi nose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114164","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\/2973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114617,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114164\/revisions\/114617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}