{"id":123657,"date":"2022-06-26T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=123657"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T03:01:29","slug":"lost-and-found-hour-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/lost-and-found-hour-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found (Hour 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found you that day<\/p>\n<p>standing there all alone<\/p>\n<p>Quite sure that no one<\/p>\n<p>would ever take you home<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You withered and wilted<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>having given up all hope<\/p>\n<p>The last of your kind<\/p>\n<p>lost abandoned no rope<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then along came me<\/p>\n<p>and spotted you there<\/p>\n<p>Thinking how lovely it\u2019d be<\/p>\n<p>having you near my chair<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I paid the kind lady<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>left her shaking her head<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wondering why I would buy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>a tree that was basically dead<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But I knew that day<\/p>\n<p>with water and care<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The joy you would bring me<\/p>\n<p>by just being there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found you that day standing there all alone Quite sure that no one would ever take you home\u00a0 You withered and wilted\u00a0 having given up all hope The last of your kind lost abandoned no rope\u00a0 Then along came me and spotted you there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123657","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123658,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123657\/revisions\/123658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}