{"id":131535,"date":"2023-09-02T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131535"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:09:49","slug":"cherry-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/cherry-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry Trees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Papaw Kidd\u2019s branches sway with each tickle<\/p>\n<p>of the wind. <em>Look at big they are<\/em>, Mamaw<\/p>\n<p>gasps, eyes hugging the trunks grown green with moss.<\/p>\n<p>Aunt Vivy nods, <em>If only we could still climb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shade covers the lawn as leaves and blossoms<\/p>\n<p>stretch across the sky, the two trees reaching<\/p>\n<p>for a lover\u2019s embrace. Mamaw looks at the bird,<\/p>\n<p>hopeful for a place to land, <em>We can<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>when we dream. <\/em>Perched on a twig, it begins<\/p>\n<p>singing. <em>Do you hear that?<\/em> Aunt Vivy closes<\/p>\n<p>her eyes. Mamaw sighs, <em>Yes, he\u2019s just like us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry Trees &nbsp; Papaw Kidd\u2019s branches sway with each tickle of the wind. Look at big they are, Mamaw gasps, eyes hugging the trunks grown green with moss. Aunt Vivy nods, If only we could still climb. Shade covers the lawn as leaves and blossoms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131535","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131550,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131535\/revisions\/131550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}