{"id":19767,"date":"2016-08-13T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19767"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:56","slug":"drought-soon-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/drought-soon-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Soon Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds this morning look of rain<br \/>\nWill the flowers rejoice<br \/>\nFor weeks, their buds have cried in vain<br \/>\nWith nary another choice<br \/>\nThe heat has risen from the ground<br \/>\nTo smother and to steal<br \/>\nThe sacred drink they need for life<br \/>\nThat they now need to heal<\/p>\n<p>The flowers&#8217; leaves, once bright and green<br \/>\nNow wilted, spotted brown<br \/>\nThe happy little blooms of hope<br \/>\nNow bow their heads to frown<br \/>\nBut, wait&#8230;. alas what&#8217;s that I hear<br \/>\nA loud, thunderous boom<br \/>\nMaybe today shall bring the end<br \/>\nOf summer&#8217;s drought and doom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clouds this morning look of rain Will the flowers rejoice For weeks, their buds have cried in vain With nary another choice The heat has risen from the ground To smother and to steal The sacred drink they need for life That they now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[1415,1414,1413],"class_list":["post-19767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-nature-poetry","tag-rain-poems","tag-weather-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}