{"id":120644,"date":"2022-06-26T05:27:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120644"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:00:04","slug":"the-swimming-hole-poem-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-swimming-hole-poem-9\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Swimming Hole&#8221; POEM 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The swimming hole<br \/>\nis a pebbled river bank<br \/>\nwith a solid bend<br \/>\nmountain water run off cold!<br \/>\nGoose fleshed skin when touched by its caress<br \/>\na roiling rapid in &amp; out<br \/>\nwith 300 feet of calm relief<br \/>\nJumping out long enough<br \/>\nto let hot sun warm my powdery skin,<br \/>\nthen back in again.<br \/>\nSmooth rocks pressing hard<br \/>\ninto tender feet.<br \/>\nCanon balls and sit dives from a tree.<br \/>\nA toddlers laughter on the edge of the water<br \/>\nas a clutch of butterflies swirl and mate<br \/>\nin the distance a dog plays with his new found reflection<br \/>\ni can see my wife<br \/>\nsprouting freckles from her space far from the shade<br \/>\nreminding herself she knows how to smile<\/p>\n<p>so i enjoyed river wanders through the eyes of a child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swimming hole is a pebbled river bank with a solid bend mountain water run off cold! Goose fleshed skin when touched by its caress a roiling rapid in &amp; out with 300 feet of calm relief Jumping out long enough to let hot sun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120644","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\/4456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120919,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120644\/revisions\/120919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}