{"id":135185,"date":"2023-09-02T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135185"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:35:44","slug":"the-2023-texas-drought-hour-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-2023-texas-drought-hour-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 Texas Drought &#8211; Hour Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2023 Texas Drought\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crunchy grass and muggy air<br \/>\nAnother drought filled night<br \/>\nNo hint of rain found anywhere<br \/>\nOn this September night<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been this way, all summer heat<br \/>\nWithout any relief<br \/>\nThe forecast promising deceit<br \/>\nJust adding to our grief<\/p>\n<p>The plants are dead, the grass is brown<br \/>\nThe wildlife is trying<br \/>\nBut even still, across our town<br \/>\nSo many things are dying<br \/>\nA summer unlike what we&#8217;ve known<br \/>\nIn many years, if ever<br \/>\nWe need to see the storms at home<br \/>\nHow much a grand endeavor<\/p>\n<p>Our planet in a periled state<br \/>\nIs screaming a forewarning<br \/>\nWe need to change, if not too late<br \/>\nTo stop this time of mourning<br \/>\nIf summer has been but a test<br \/>\nIt has shown all too well<br \/>\nWe would all be very hard pressed<br \/>\nTo live our days in Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 Texas Drought\u00a0 Crunchy grass and muggy air Another drought filled night No hint of rain found anywhere On this September night It&#8217;s been this way, all summer heat Without any relief The forecast promising deceit Just adding to our grief The plants are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[5765,3019,5448,1806,3456,6083,1413],"class_list":["post-135185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-drought-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-texas-drought","tag-weather-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135315,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135185\/revisions\/135315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}