{"id":129461,"date":"2023-09-02T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129461"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:00:50","slug":"zinnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/zinnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinnias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong stemmed, they balance multitudes on their heads.<br \/>\nIn their roots, the ley lines of all the world adhere.<br \/>\nMagenta, rouge, and rusted-iron petals, velvet to the touch,<br \/>\nCan add their glory and slightly bitter taste to brighten ice cream,<br \/>\nYet from all this glory \u2013 no fragrance and no sound.<br \/>\nThey breathe the sun, reminding me of Aunt Jinny<br \/>\nIn her Salisbury garden who sang summer with them.<br \/>\nLong stemmed, short lived, they are fully \u201cwoke\u201d.<br \/>\nIt is told that if these annuals come back another year<br \/>\nYour fortunes will expand.<br \/>\nYellow petals of its head, used in a tisane, will sooth an aching heart.<br \/>\nAblaze, they exhale joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong stemmed, they balance multitudes on their heads. In their roots, the ley lines of all the world adhere. Magenta, rouge, and rusted-iron petals, velvet to the touch, Can add their glory and slightly bitter taste to brighten ice cream, Yet from all this glory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129461","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\/3109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129483,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129461\/revisions\/129483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}