{"id":117990,"date":"2022-06-25T23:46:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117990"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:00:55","slug":"the-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once these were busy thoroughfares<br \/>\nOn a green and sunny day<br \/>\nWater rushing up from the roots<br \/>\nProcessed food being carted away.<\/p>\n<p>This was an oxygen- processing unit, too,<br \/>\nTill the air itself turned into fog,<br \/>\nAnd the winter chill settled itself down<br \/>\nTo write the leaf&#8217;s epilogue.<\/p>\n<p>A delicate tracery of veins still remains<br \/>\nWhich will crumble away soon, although<br \/>\nArtists may immortalize it, poets show<br \/>\nHow much we humans owe..<br \/>\nTo the humble leaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once these were busy thoroughfares On a green and sunny day Water rushing up from the roots Processed food being carted away. This was an oxygen- processing unit, too, Till the air itself turned into fog, And the winter chill settled itself down To write&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[4909,5034,5406,5405,622],"class_list":["post-117990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-2022halfmarathon-thepoetrymarathon","tag-leaf","tag-pictureprompt","tag-picture-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117990","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\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118060,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117990\/revisions\/118060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}