{"id":127385,"date":"2023-09-02T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127385"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:46:08","slug":"in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later than we meant to, we pulled into the campground,<\/p>\n<p>the lights from the guard gate glowing,<\/p>\n<p>bright yellow lines painted on the roadway guiding us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At first we thought no one was there;<\/p>\n<p>then he lifted his sleepy head, chagrined,<\/p>\n<p>and signed us in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quietly as we could, we crept to space D17,<\/p>\n<p>our usual space having been taken by an earlier arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Right on the lake, just as promised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pitched our tent in the dark;<\/p>\n<p>peed in the woods \u2013 the bathhouse was too far \u2013<\/p>\n<p>unrolled our sleeping bags and crawled in,<\/p>\n<p>faces toward the open flaps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At last.<\/p>\n<p>We were sleeping under the stars again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gena Williams<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later than we meant to, we pulled into the campground, the lights from the guard gate glowing, bright yellow lines painted on the roadway guiding us. &nbsp; At first we thought no one was there; then he lifted his sleepy head, chagrined, and signed us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127385","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\/1150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127410,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127385\/revisions\/127410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}