{"id":23466,"date":"2016-08-13T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:52:15","slug":"for-other-peoples-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/for-other-peoples-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"For Other People&#8217;s Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23755\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o1-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o1-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13173399_10209404006558795_117504116476296927_o1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the flowers in the urban tree pits,<\/p>\n<p>for pictures of flowers on facebook,<\/p>\n<p>for flowers for sale and displayed<\/p>\n<p>in the city groceries.<\/p>\n<p>For remembrance of flowers<\/p>\n<p>in the front yard and in the back yard<\/p>\n<p>at our home and at my grandparent&#8217;s,<\/p>\n<p>for Mom\u00a0who volunteered\u00a0at the Garden Club.<\/p>\n<p>For the church member who brought flowers<\/p>\n<p>to my parents in the nursing home,<\/p>\n<p>for my sister who works for a florist,<\/p>\n<p>for another sister who takes photos of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>For my best friend who has a tattoo of a tiger lily<\/p>\n<p>encircling her belly button.<\/p>\n<p>For someone who gave me an Easter Lily with love,<\/p>\n<p>for those who enable my love to flower.<\/p>\n<p>For all who read this and learn they<\/p>\n<p>gave their gift as a flower to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the flowers in the urban tree pits, for pictures of flowers on facebook, for flowers for sale and displayed in the city groceries. For remembrance of flowers in the front yard and in the back yard at our home and at my grandparent&#8217;s, for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23758,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23466\/revisions\/23758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}