{"id":25466,"date":"2016-08-13T23:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:17","slug":"yellow-roses-remained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/yellow-roses-remained\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Roses Remained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aftermath was devastating<br \/>\nTwisted metal, fractured wires<br \/>\nBricks tossed all around<br \/>\nThe house largely a total loss<br \/>\nOnce a family home, a two story safe-haven<br \/>\nThe force of the hurricane too much for it to bear<br \/>\nWhen the family first saw it, tears and horror followed<br \/>\nTheir lives forever changed<br \/>\nIn those brief moments, it was easy to believe they\u2019d lost everything<br \/>\nEven if they were alive to pick up the pieces<br \/>\nThis was their home; the place where their memories dwelled<br \/>\nNo insurance payment could ever replace it all<br \/>\n\u201cGive me some sign that everything will be fine\u201d she shouted<br \/>\nThen as the family made their way to the backyard, they noticed<br \/>\nThe yellow roses \u2013 their Grandmother\u2019s yellow roses, to be exact<br \/>\nStill bloomed brightly, rising from fractured fence boards<br \/>\nTwas in that moment, they knew that some way, somehow<br \/>\nEverything would be alright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aftermath was devastating Twisted metal, fractured wires Bricks tossed all around The house largely a total loss Once a family home, a two story safe-haven The force of the hurricane too much for it to bear When the family first saw it, tears and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[680,17,1157],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-nature","tag-poetrymarathon2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25477,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions\/25477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}