{"id":19099,"date":"2016-08-13T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19099"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:21:12","slug":"letting-go-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/letting-go-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go  #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letting Go<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In May I started turning green<\/p>\n<p>Sitting on the maple limb<\/p>\n<p>A large pointed leaf<\/p>\n<p>Knowing I was a fraud<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June brought the bees<\/p>\n<p>Birds and summer rain<\/p>\n<p>My size unchanged but<\/p>\n<p>I was passing unnoticed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>July and August and heat<\/p>\n<p>The tree house nearby<\/p>\n<p>With children&#8217;s laughter<\/p>\n<p>As they plotted and played<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By September I worried<\/p>\n<p>Wiggling in the breeze<\/p>\n<p>Trying my best to belong<\/p>\n<p>Unable to turn gold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It would be October with<\/p>\n<p>Vibrant colors surrounding<\/p>\n<p>When I quietly let myself go<\/p>\n<p>A green youth my undoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting Go &nbsp; In May I started turning green Sitting on the maple limb A large pointed leaf Knowing I was a fraud &nbsp; June brought the bees Birds and summer rain My size unchanged but I was passing unnoticed &nbsp; July and August and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19161,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions\/19161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}