{"id":117717,"date":"2022-06-25T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117717"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:23:55","slug":"mother-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/mother-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mother Ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I visit Mother Ocean,<\/p>\n<p>one of her children,<\/p>\n<p>created from her salty water.<\/p>\n<p>Leave windows open at night<\/p>\n<p>to hear her whispers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Whoosh\u2026Whoosh\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wish you understood\u2026We are the same.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Admire her glistening smile<\/p>\n<p>as she playfully laps at us,<\/p>\n<p>lying like sea lions<\/p>\n<p>basking on rocks she ground<\/p>\n<p>with her fearsome churning.<\/p>\n<p>We expect her gifts,<\/p>\n<p>disrespect her parenting,<\/p>\n<p>abuse her riches.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she gleams,<\/p>\n<p>knowing she will soon<\/p>\n<p>reclaim the coast, the cities,<\/p>\n<p>for others capable of more respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Ocean &nbsp; I visit Mother Ocean, one of her children, created from her salty water. Leave windows open at night to hear her whispers. Whoosh\u2026Whoosh\u2026 Wish you understood\u2026We are the same. Admire her glistening smile as she playfully laps at us, lying like sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117717","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117731,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117717\/revisions\/117731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}