{"id":134674,"date":"2023-09-02T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134674"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:54:31","slug":"almost-home-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/almost-home-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Home hour 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Almost Home<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Familiar scents and foods could make this seem like home.<br \/>\npotatoes and beets in a bucket on the floor.<br \/>\nthe basket of foraged wild mushrooms near my feet.<br \/>\ncinnamon rolls baking in the oven.<br \/>\nthe heavy canvas oiled jacket thrown across the chair<br \/>\nwhile a single lightbulb in the overhead lamp flickers<br \/>\nand you sit by my elbow pouring intently over hand-drawn maps.<\/p>\n<p>4,000 miles from where my hounds patiently await me.<br \/>\nthey are my true star. this new land is my origin, my roots<br \/>\nand I have come to learn and pray under the same sky that birthed me.<br \/>\nto feel the earth beneath my feet, give my thanks and<br \/>\nput to rest the sadness, pain and discord<br \/>\nfor wherever I go, there I will find me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost Home Familiar scents and foods could make this seem like home. potatoes and beets in a bucket on the floor. the basket of foraged wild mushrooms near my feet. cinnamon rolls baking in the oven. the heavy canvas oiled jacket thrown across the chair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134674","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\/2907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134697,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134674\/revisions\/134697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}