{"id":23312,"date":"2016-08-13T18:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23312"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:18:30","slug":"i-praise-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/i-praise-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"I Praise The Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0 bathing me so hard so my tears won&#8217;t be noticed<\/p>\n<p>For taking away my pain and bringing joy and bliss<\/p>\n<p>For waiting comfortably &#8217;til I&#8217;m ready to come home<\/p>\n<p>I praise my friend-the rain with it as if I&#8217;m home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For caressing my skin my hair and then my feet<\/p>\n<p>For hiding all my sobs so they won&#8217;t see my pain<\/p>\n<p>For blocking all my cries so people will not hear<\/p>\n<p>I praise my friend-the rain that never fails to cheer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rain my dear dear friend is quiet and sincere<\/p>\n<p>It listens to my rants and even my own fear<\/p>\n<p>Always like a cane when times I need a hand<\/p>\n<p>I praise my friend-the rain one in a million kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For\u00a0 bathing me so hard so my tears won&#8217;t be noticed For taking away my pain and bringing joy and bliss For waiting comfortably &#8217;til I&#8217;m ready to come home I praise my friend-the rain with it as if I&#8217;m home &nbsp; For caressing my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1312,1736],"class_list":["post-23312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-naidasupnetinpoetrymarathon2016","tag-poem10ofpoetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312","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\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23474,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}