{"id":132537,"date":"2023-09-02T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132537"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:33:22","slug":"132537","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/132537\/","title":{"rendered":"An idling place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The empty swing<\/p>\n<p>invites all-comers<\/p>\n<p>to sit awhile<\/p>\n<p>to dangle, legs and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I stand and gently rock<\/p>\n<p>the empty swing<\/p>\n<p>warmed by the end of summer<\/p>\n<p>in fields of afterglow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sunflowers with heavy heads of seed<\/p>\n<p>turn their upward gaze towards<\/p>\n<p>the empty swing<\/p>\n<p>which twists with every breeze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love has moved me<\/p>\n<p>on beyond the flaming golden field<\/p>\n<p>A hand in hand departure; farewell<\/p>\n<p>the empty swing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>author: \u00a9\ufe0fJane Eckford<\/p>\n<p>2nd September 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The empty swing invites all-comers to sit awhile to dangle, legs and dreams. &nbsp; I stand and gently rock the empty swing warmed by the end of summer in fields of afterglow. &nbsp; Sunflowers with heavy heads of seed turn their upward gaze towards the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2293,5737,4531,5990],"class_list":["post-132537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour7","tag-poetrymarathon2023","tag-poetryprompt","tag-viator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132537","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\/5292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132799,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132537\/revisions\/132799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}