{"id":143659,"date":"2023-09-03T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143659"},"modified":"2024-02-16T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T05:29:13","slug":"menhir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/menhir\/","title":{"rendered":"Menhir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was cracked from cliffs of sandstone,<br \/>\nTook her shape from breaking blows<br \/>\nAnd shattered from her birthplace<br \/>\nThey saw in her the flows<br \/>\nOf tides that bring the fishes<br \/>\nWhen rot has ruined the crops,<br \/>\nAnd welcome trade from distant shores<br \/>\nWhen sickness takes the ox;<br \/>\nThey saw the streaking sunlight<br \/>\nAs hailstorms flood the town,<br \/>\nThey saw in her the breath of rain<br \/>\nWhen drought is beating down.<br \/>\nThey saw in her the dancing<br \/>\nAt new-built barrowsides,<br \/>\nThey heard in her the singing<br \/>\nUnder wind-torn turf new skies.<br \/>\nThey raised her on a hilltop,<br \/>\nThey daubed her painted length,<br \/>\nThey gave her scented oils<br \/>\nAnd begged her for her strength.<br \/>\nThey raised her in the knowing<br \/>\nThat one day they\u2019d be gone<br \/>\nBut she would stand there steadfast,<br \/>\nThat hope lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was cracked from cliffs of sandstone, Took her shape from breaking blows And shattered from her birthplace They saw in her the flows Of tides that bring the fishes When rot has ruined the crops, And welcome trade from distant shores When sickness takes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143659","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143659"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145874,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143659\/revisions\/145874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}