{"id":20883,"date":"2016-08-13T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20883"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:51","slug":"peach-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/peach-pits\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACH PITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>after winter opened her taught fist,<br \/>\nand mountains of snow made ponds in the yard,<br \/>\nmy Grandmother nurtured peach pit seeds<br \/>\nfor weeks \u2013<br \/>\nready for transplant\u2026<br \/>\nshe mixed rich soil and added her secret nutrients,<br \/>\nthe tiny seedlings transferred from cellar slips,<br \/>\nto baby trees ready for a hot house to solidify viability;<br \/>\neach tree that grew healthy in her orchard started<br \/>\nfrom a pit she saved from grocery store purchases;<br \/>\nmmmm\u2026those juicy fruits prime for pickin\u2019<br \/>\nand pies and preserves never tasted so good.<br \/>\nMichellia D. Wilson 8\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after winter opened her taught fist, and mountains of snow made ponds in the yard, my Grandmother nurtured peach pit seeds for weeks \u2013 ready for transplant\u2026 she mixed rich soil and added her secret nutrients, the tiny seedlings transferred from cellar slips, to baby&#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-20883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883","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=20883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21516,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883\/revisions\/21516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}