{"id":20903,"date":"2016-08-13T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:14:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:14:14","slug":"phlox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/phlox\/","title":{"rendered":"Phlox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hearty growth of phlox<\/p>\n<p>now encroaches on the cairn of my beloved BB,<\/p>\n<p>shepherd friend who lies in peace &#8216;neath friendship picked stones and memories.<\/p>\n<p>I shall try to transplant what needs cutting back,<\/p>\n<p>dig rather than chop off.<\/p>\n<p>The light determines the color of the blossoms,<\/p>\n<p>some say pink, violet or purple.<\/p>\n<p>Others say lavender, blue or a shade of all.<\/p>\n<p>Fragrant, fragile blooms rain upon the grass as the breeze pushes her fingers<\/p>\n<p>through the leggy stems.<\/p>\n<p>A light floral fragrance lifts,<\/p>\n<p>settles onto the back of the tongue and summer is tasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearty growth of phlox now encroaches on the cairn of my beloved BB, shepherd friend who lies in peace &#8216;neath friendship picked stones and memories. I shall try to transplant what needs cutting back, dig rather than chop off. The light determines the color&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","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\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20970,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions\/20970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}