{"id":120339,"date":"2022-06-26T04:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120339"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:28:02","slug":"apology-to-the-tree-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/apology-to-the-tree-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology to the Tree People  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apology to the Tree People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Took you for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed your shade, birds,<\/p>\n<p>green in spring, splendid colors in fall.<\/p>\n<p>Learned about your xylem and phloem,<\/p>\n<p>photosynthesis and reverse Krebs Cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t think to get to know you.<\/p>\n<p>Your lifestyles, cultures,<\/p>\n<p>preferences, parenting styles.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t even bother to learn your names:<\/p>\n<p>Aspen, Cherry, Ash, Fir,<\/p>\n<p>Oak, Maple, Cedar.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m old now, trying to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are slow, but not as slow as trees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apology to the Tree People \u00a0 Sorry. Took you for granted. Enjoyed your shade, birds, green in spring, splendid colors in fall. Learned about your xylem and phloem, photosynthesis and reverse Krebs Cycle. Didn\u2019t think to get to know you. Your lifestyles, cultures, preferences, parenting&#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-120339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120339","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=120339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120356,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120339\/revisions\/120356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}