{"id":133426,"date":"2023-09-02T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133426"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:24:08","slug":"8-front-porch-strummin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/8-front-porch-strummin\/","title":{"rendered":"#8 Front Porch Strummin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Front Porch Strummin\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He strums the guitar<\/p>\n<p>Picking a simple tune.<\/p>\n<p>With our eyes closed,<\/p>\n<p>We tap our feet to the rhythm<\/p>\n<p>On the wooden front porch.<\/p>\n<p>We all feel the beat and nod our heads.<\/p>\n<p>The high, raspy voice floats on a melody<\/p>\n<p>A butterfly visiting flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Others follow this pied piper<\/p>\n<p>In a song of life.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Front Porch Strummin\u2019 &nbsp; He strums the guitar Picking a simple tune. With our eyes closed, We tap our feet to the rhythm On the wooden front porch. We all feel the beat and nod our heads. The high, raspy voice floats on a melody&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133426","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133438,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133426\/revisions\/133438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}