{"id":134361,"date":"2023-09-02T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134361"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:33:21","slug":"cinnamon-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/cinnamon-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinnamon Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was barely twenty-one<br \/>\nWhen I met Cinnamon Greene<br \/>\nShe was waiting at the bus stop<br \/>\nFor the number twenty-three.<\/p>\n<p>Her padded denim jacket<br \/>\nWas slung over her arm<br \/>\nThe badge pinned by her elbow<br \/>\nSaid \u2018Rock and Do No Harm\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a lazy summer<br \/>\nPaddling in the brook,<br \/>\nCatching mud in fishing nets,<br \/>\nWith a bucket, for the look.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d ride our bikes through mirages<br \/>\nPast fields of sugar beet<br \/>\nAnd pick the unripe apples<br \/>\nOff of feral apple trees.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d spent our nights on benches<br \/>\nBehind the parish church<br \/>\nGet drunk on wine from corner shops<br \/>\nWhere our old school friends worked.<\/p>\n<p>I was barely twenty-two<br \/>\nWhen I moved out of town<br \/>\nShe said she\u2019d come and visit<br \/>\nBut she never made it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was barely twenty-one When I met Cinnamon Greene She was waiting at the bus stop For the number twenty-three. Her padded denim jacket Was slung over her arm The badge pinned by her elbow Said \u2018Rock and Do No Harm\u2019. We spent a lazy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134361","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134361\/revisions\/134407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}