{"id":134493,"date":"2023-09-02T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134493"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:42:09","slug":"hour-nine-on-our-braid-of-the-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-nine-on-our-braid-of-the-bayou\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine: On Our Braid of the Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeping the memory of a cinnamon sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salted with tears and blood that are proof of life,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We tremor on our braid of the bayou<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the elbow of the Cajun and the Creole<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where our buckets bring up more catfish than cool water &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So stagnant, its marsh gives no succor to thirsty elk<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So somnolent, its stream seems to slog nowhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But some day we must sleepwalk to the sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where all water, all life flows on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping the memory of a cinnamon sea Salted with tears and blood that are proof of life, We tremor on our braid of the bayou At the elbow of the Cajun and the Creole Where our buckets bring up more catfish than cool water &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5783],"class_list":["post-134493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-marathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134493","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145508,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134493\/revisions\/145508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}