{"id":18891,"date":"2016-08-13T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18891"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:22:53","slug":"milk-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/milk-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"MILK WEED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crusty, mousy brown pods,<br \/>\nthat only a month before was a pleasant prickly green,<br \/>\ntops so pointed,<br \/>\nthey nip the fingertips,<br \/>\nbreaking the stem,<br \/>\nbrings oozing milk<br \/>\nin the circumference of the shoot;<br \/>\ncool weather matures this plant<br \/>\nand the pod \u2013<br \/>\nbroken open,<br \/>\nfull of white, fuzzy seeds \u2013<br \/>\ncatching the crisp air,<br \/>\nlofting,<br \/>\nsettling over the fields<br \/>\nin a web ready to take root for next year\u2019s crop.<\/p>\n<p>Michellia D. Wilson 8\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crusty, mousy brown pods, that only a month before was a pleasant prickly green, tops so pointed, they nip the fingertips, breaking the stem, brings oozing milk in the circumference of the shoot; cool weather matures this plant and the pod \u2013 broken open, full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19550,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18891\/revisions\/19550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}