{"id":22064,"date":"2016-08-13T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:00:48","slug":"in-my-front-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/in-my-front-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Front Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"771\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"500\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I step outside upon the grassy lawn,<br \/>\nIn the wee hours of the morning.<br \/>\nA fresh new day has arisen,<br \/>\nThe newspaper flung on the ground,<br \/>\nLike a jacket thrown in a lwn chair,<br \/>\nIn my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant colors spread over the horizion,<br \/>\nLike a box of crayons scatterd across a table,<br \/>\nAs the sky stretches<br \/>\nFrom northeast to northwest,<br \/>\nLike an overstuffed rubber band,<br \/>\nIn my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow sun shines brightly,<br \/>\nLike a blazing ball of flames,<br \/>\nPearly white clouds,<br \/>\nDrift lazily past me,<br \/>\nAs children play games,<br \/>\nIn my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>The dusty hot day winds down,<br \/>\nGiving away to the dark evening,<br \/>\nShadows dance upon the twillight,<br \/>\nWhen I watch children collect fireflies,<br \/>\nAs I sit on my porch swing,<br \/>\nIn my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 I step outside upon the grassy lawn, In the wee hours of the morning. A fresh new day has arisen, The newspaper flung on the ground, Like a jacket thrown in a lwn chair, In my front yard. Brilliant colors spread over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064","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\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22075,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions\/22075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}