{"id":139743,"date":"2023-09-03T01:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139743"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:36:13","slug":"there-have-been-no-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/there-have-been-no-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"There Have Been No Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last did I see a firefly?<br \/>\nWhen I was a child,<br \/>\nI remember a preponderance<br \/>\nof their flickering every summer.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because<br \/>\nI&#8217;m long past bartering<br \/>\nwith my mother to stay outside<br \/>\nin the backyard,<br \/>\nI no longer have the vantage from which to succumb<br \/>\nto their blinking presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last did I see a firefly? When I was a child, I remember a preponderance of their flickering every summer. Maybe because I&#8217;m long past bartering with my mother to stay outside in the backyard, I no longer have the vantage from which to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139743","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139827,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139743\/revisions\/139827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}