{"id":120569,"date":"2022-06-26T05:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120569"},"modified":"2022-07-09T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T16:49:05","slug":"my-shooting-bamboo-a-gigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/my-shooting-bamboo-a-gigan\/","title":{"rendered":"My shooting bamboo- A Gigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 8 <em>(Write a Gigan)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My shooting bamboo<\/p>\n<p>With pale green leaves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was once greener than grass<\/p>\n<p>And smelled sweet like dewy grass<\/p>\n<p>My long stemmed bamboo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see now such brown leaves<\/p>\n<p>Coffee coloured, whisked with tea<\/p>\n<p>A rich leafy arm may unfurl<\/p>\n<p>Reaching my window pane to curl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But lately I see it drooping<\/p>\n<p>My shooting bamboo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see now such brown leaves<\/p>\n<p>The fine veins, starker and paler<\/p>\n<p>Coffee stained in watercolor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The brown and green intertwine<\/p>\n<p>A spring of youth in aging wine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 8 (Write a Gigan) My shooting bamboo With pale green leaves &nbsp; It was once greener than grass And smelled sweet like dewy grass My long stemmed bamboo &nbsp; I see now such brown leaves Coffee coloured, whisked with tea A rich leafy arm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120569","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\/1596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124802,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120569\/revisions\/124802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}