{"id":22451,"date":"2016-08-13T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22451"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:48:50","slug":"imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain is kin to resurrection<\/p>\n<p>when you can read<\/p>\n<p>the agony of short-lived things,<\/p>\n<p>and drought coats even trees with dust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you can read<\/p>\n<p>the cracked palm of familiar earth<\/p>\n<p>and drought coats even trees with dust,<\/p>\n<p>your body&#8217;s scenting for a storm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cracked palm of familiar earth<\/p>\n<p>begs for easing.<\/p>\n<p>Your body&#8217;s scenting for a storm;<\/p>\n<p>you will the blue clouds down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beg for easing<\/p>\n<p>the agony of short-lived things;<\/p>\n<p>will the blue clouds down,<\/p>\n<p>for rain&#8217;s akin to resurrection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain is kin to resurrection when you can read the agony of short-lived things, and drought coats even trees with dust. &nbsp; When you can read the cracked palm of familiar earth and drought coats even trees with dust, your body&#8217;s scenting for a storm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-22451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-pantoum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451","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\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22574,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22451\/revisions\/22574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}