{"id":140528,"date":"2023-09-03T03:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140528"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:14:37","slug":"dark-spring-hour-nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/dark-spring-hour-nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Spring-Hour Nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smooth walls circle round and round me, round and round,<\/p>\n<p>like a tailor bird I stitch it round me, in the best and coolest of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Green, rich gold, deep mahogany, colors of the forest, dressing me<\/p>\n<p>in sumptuous symphony, I turn, the green a warm cocoon of liveliness,<\/p>\n<p>lovely green walls that spin and touch the senses, just so,<\/p>\n<p>in the depths of winter, I will always stand in spring, in her soft,<\/p>\n<p>sweet, melancholic way, a Persephone garden, an immortal garden,<\/p>\n<p>wrapt so in that deep forestness, Hades&#8217; favorite gift of the pomegranate<\/p>\n<p>and of flowers never dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smooth walls circle round and round me, round and round, like a tailor bird I stitch it round me, in the best and coolest of colors. Green, rich gold, deep mahogany, colors of the forest, dressing me in sumptuous symphony, I turn, the green a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140566,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528\/revisions\/140566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}