{"id":25453,"date":"2016-08-13T22:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25453"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:20:29","slug":"dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/dandelion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sinewy tendrils push<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apart a crack,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Minute and invisible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving closer to a surface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Of air, and water, and sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tender hairs wiggle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soil into small canals,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stretching out, reaching for <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Space, and nutrients, and life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spindles of green shoot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upward straight trajectory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toward the golden orb giving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy, and strength, and color<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miniature face of petals opens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inviting arms in a circle of scent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beaming out a \u201ccome hither\u201d to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady bugs, butterflies, and ants <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Precious fluffs of powdery <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitchhikers cling to legs and backs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a cycle continues by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wing, and trek, and wind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dandelion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 13, 2016 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinewy tendrils push Apart a crack, Minute and invisible Moving closer to a surface Of air, and water, and sun Tender hairs wiggle Soil into small canals, Stretching out, reaching for Space, and nutrients, and life Spindles of green shoot Upward straight trajectory Toward the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1900,1432,210,17],"class_list":["post-25453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-dandelion","tag-flowers","tag-hour-14","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25462,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25453\/revisions\/25462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}