{"id":22098,"date":"2016-08-13T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22098"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:49:32","slug":"under-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/under-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Under a Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on a bench under\u00a0a naked tree,<br \/>\nDried leaves clinging to the branches,<br \/>\nOthers fallen to a place they&#8217;d rather be,<br \/>\nI sat in the center watching,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDried leaves clinging to the branches,<br \/>\nShade in stick figure fragments upon the ground,<br \/>\nI sat in the center watching,<br \/>\nA breeze filtering through my hair,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nShade in stick figured fragments upon the ground,<br \/>\nI re-traveled my life through moments of sadness,<br \/>\nA breeze filtering through my hair,<br \/>\nWere these moments worth remembering?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI re-traveled my life through moments of sadness,<br \/>\nLoss that preceded the brinks of madness,<br \/>\nWere these moments worth remembering?<br \/>\nDay dreaming broken by a rustle,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLoss that preceded the brinks of madness,<br \/>\nA hard fought struggle to overcome<br \/>\nDay dreaming broke by a rustle,<br \/>\nA squirrel appeared out of nowhere,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nA hard fought struggle to overcome,<br \/>\nScattered dreams still attainable,<br \/>\nA squirrel appeared out of nowhere,<br \/>\nI welcomed her to sit with me\u00a0on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on a bench under\u00a0a naked tree, Dried leaves clinging to the branches, Others fallen to a place they&#8217;d rather be, I sat in the center watching, &nbsp; Dried leaves clinging to the branches, Shade in stick figure fragments upon the ground, I sat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098","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\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22573,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098\/revisions\/22573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}