{"id":23384,"date":"2016-08-13T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23384"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:31:24","slug":"in-praise-of-garden-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/in-praise-of-garden-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Garden Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it rained<br \/>\nand then the sun burst through<br \/>\nand more rain, and more sun<br \/>\ntomatoes on the vine burst into\u00a0crimson<br \/>\nI pull\u00a0one from its stem<br \/>\nstill wet, still warm<br \/>\nsink my teeth into its paper\u00a0thin\u00a0flesh<br \/>\njuice runs down my chin<br \/>\nI suck the seeds<br \/>\nmash the pulp with my tongue and teeth<br \/>\nhow can you possibly describe<br \/>\nhow delicious the earth tastes<br \/>\nfresh from the garden<br \/>\nI can only say, <em>Mmmmmmm<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So good. Thank you for tomatoes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it rained and then the sun burst through and more rain, and more sun tomatoes on the vine burst into\u00a0crimson I pull\u00a0one from its stem still wet, still warm sink my teeth into its paper\u00a0thin\u00a0flesh juice runs down my chin I suck the seeds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23384","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23580,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23384\/revisions\/23580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}