{"id":12412,"date":"2015-06-14T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:07:21","slug":"poem-17-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-17-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #17: Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bonfire roars into the night<br \/>\nCrackling twigs erupt in a furor<br \/>\nThey dance, drink, and laugh around the perimeter<br \/>\nIn light of summer&#8217;s sweet charity<\/p>\n<p>The crickets play violin on their legs<br \/>\nThe music of night, the lullaby of the earth<br \/>\nInto the hay field they wade<br \/>\nHushed giggles and soft tremors<\/p>\n<p>Two link pinkies<br \/>\nTheir faces close<br \/>\nBrushing up eyelashes<br \/>\nTickle her cheeks<\/p>\n<p>Rising smell of wood and leather<br \/>\nShe tugs at the hem of her jeans<br \/>\nHikes them up over her boots<br \/>\nHops the fence and follows through<\/p>\n<p>Nighttime nickers and velvet noses<br \/>\nFingers weave into course manes<br \/>\nEars tilt backward<br \/>\nThey ride into twilight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bonfire roars into the night Crackling twigs erupt in a furor They dance, drink, and laugh around the perimeter In light of summer&#8217;s sweet charity The crickets play violin on their legs The music of night, the lullaby of the earth Into the hay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[935,193,936,40,937],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-935","tag-193","tag-country","tag-friendship","tag-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","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\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12503,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}