{"id":132644,"date":"2023-09-02T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132644"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:37:16","slug":"hour-7-winged-seats-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-winged-seats-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: &#8220;Winged Seats of the Past&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where sunflower children encircle a swingset,<br \/>\ntippy toes point towards the deepest of blue skies.<br \/>\nAnd laughter falls through the air like frolicking leopards,<br \/>\nall spotted and sporadic, full of stomach and throat.<\/p>\n<p>In this field at the edge of the rolling woods,<br \/>\nwhere sunflower children encircle a swingset,<br \/>\ndreams drop their leaves with each soaring defiance of gravity<br \/>\nto sequester in the old soil of earthworm labyrinths.<\/p>\n<p>I am the watching wind, passing gently through,<br \/>\nIndifferent to the woes and the wishes that sway back and forth<br \/>\nWhere sunflower children encircle a swingset,<br \/>\nAnd all the leaves rustle, like hot whispers of breaking glass.<\/p>\n<p>In the tall fields of late August, the dry wood splits,<br \/>\na trembling pendulum creaks the sad song of life,<br \/>\nThe wind lifts footprints from the settling dust,<br \/>\nwhere sunflower children encircle a swingset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where sunflower children encircle a swingset, tippy toes point towards the deepest of blue skies. And laughter falls through the air like frolicking leopards, all spotted and sporadic, full of stomach and throat. In this field at the edge of the rolling woods, where sunflower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6001,5787],"class_list":["post-132644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour-7-2023","tag-2023-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132644","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132848,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132644\/revisions\/132848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}