{"id":136317,"date":"2023-09-02T19:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136317"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:52:16","slug":"the-birds-and-the-bees-and-old-mcdonalds-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-birds-and-the-bees-and-old-mcdonalds-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"The birds and the bees and Old McDonald\u2019s Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Eleven<\/p>\n<p>Fields and fields, of grass, weeds, and dandelions.<br \/>\nTrees and trees, of needles, leaves, and boughs.<br \/>\nFlowers and flowers, of purple, blue, and pink.<br \/>\nGrass and grass, of shade, sun, and crabs.<br \/>\nShrubs and shrugs, of boxwood, japonica, and holly.<br \/>\nBirds and birds, of starlings, titmouse, and robins.<br \/>\nBees and bees, of bumble, wasp, and hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Fruits and fruits, of berries, citrus, and tropical.<br \/>\nVeggies and veggies, of vines, root, and stalk.<br \/>\nRows and rows, of canes, orchards, and bushes.<br \/>\nFarms and farms, of poultry, beef, and dairy.<br \/>\nBales and bales, of straw, wheat, and cotton.<br \/>\nBarns and barns, of equine, bovine, and ovine.<br \/>\nCoups and coups, of fowl, mammals, and rodents.<\/p>\n<p>Nature in all its variety, large and tall, colourful and soft, bushy and prickly, harmonious and chipper, whizzing and stinging, cuddly and cute. A planet of plenty, a world of wonder, a life worth living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Eleven Fields and fields, of grass, weeds, and dandelions. Trees and trees, of needles, leaves, and boughs. Flowers and flowers, of purple, blue, and pink. Grass and grass, of shade, sun, and crabs. Shrubs and shrugs, of boxwood, japonica, and holly. Birds and birds,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136317","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136317\/revisions\/136341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}