{"id":129324,"date":"2023-09-02T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129324"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:53:23","slug":"the-smashed-flower-poem-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-smashed-flower-poem-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smashed Flower (poem 3\u00a0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>Was it?<\/p>\n<p>Blown off by the wind, or<\/p>\n<p>thrown away in anguish<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>Was it part of a wreath?<\/p>\n<p>Adorning a maiden&#8217;s hair and adding to her beauty, or<\/p>\n<p>Providing solace to a devotee being offered to a deity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>Did it?<\/p>\n<p>Make two hearts meet and lead to a happily ever after, or<\/p>\n<p>Break a heart and lead to a forever unrequited love<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>Did it land here?<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the changing seasons through nature&#8217;s course, or<\/p>\n<p>As a victim of manmade changes through unnatural cause<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk<\/p>\n<p>Can we?<\/p>\n<p>Ever know the full truth, or<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to satisfy our curiosities through our assumptions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk Was it? Blown off by the wind, or thrown away in anguish &nbsp; What&#8217;s the story of the smashed flower on the sidewalk Was it part of a wreath? Adorning a maiden&#8217;s hair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129324","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\/5324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129324\/revisions\/129341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}