{"id":114734,"date":"2022-06-25T18:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114734"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:47:30","slug":"butterflies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/butterflies-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I raised a Monarch butterfly as a child,<br \/>\nfilled a jar with milkweed until<br \/>\nthe caterpillar created its chrysalis and<br \/>\none day the beautiful orange winged creature emerged.<\/p>\n<p>I held up my hand<br \/>\nand my butterfly flew<br \/>\nup and up and away<br \/>\nto freedom.<\/p>\n<p>I dream of my own journeys, my own freedoms,<br \/>\nof wandering rivers and forests<br \/>\nand meadows filled with yellow wildflowers.<br \/>\nI dream of traipsing through woodland creeks<br \/>\nand hiking to waterfalls.<\/p>\n<p>I dream of a cabin in the woods<br \/>\nthat can be reached only by walking a good hour.<br \/>\nAnd here the butterflies flutter beautifully and<br \/>\nthe blue jays fill the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I raised a Monarch butterfly as a child, filled a jar with milkweed until the caterpillar created its chrysalis and one day the beautiful orange winged creature emerged. I held up my hand and my butterfly flew up and up and away to freedom. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114734","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114814,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114734\/revisions\/114814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}