{"id":118579,"date":"2022-06-26T04:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118579"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:05:04","slug":"season-of-the-drought-hour-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/season-of-the-drought-hour-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Drought &#8211; Hour Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sunflower dirt has turned to dust<br \/>\nThe blue skies and wispy clouds are all we&#8217;ve known for months<br \/>\nJust a foot of rain in half a year<br \/>\nAnd next to none in an eternity<br \/>\nOccasional five minute sprinkles tease then<br \/>\nServe to bake our region more<br \/>\nDangerous temperatures pose an additional threat<br \/>\nIt is becoming scary<br \/>\nI hope we don&#8217;t catch up with a hurricane at our door<br \/>\nI wish I had a crystal ball to look into the future<br \/>\nBut there is no way to see<br \/>\nRain has been promised in the past<br \/>\nTo no avail<br \/>\nI guess only God knows when<br \/>\nIt will finally bring us a gully washer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sunflower dirt has turned to dust The blue skies and wispy clouds are all we&#8217;ve known for months Just a foot of rain in half a year And next to none in an eternity Occasional five minute sprinkles tease then Serve to bake our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[4880,5448,2158,1806,3456,5449],"class_list":["post-118579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-drought-poems","tag-full-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-season-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118612,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions\/118612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}