{"id":25483,"date":"2016-08-13T22:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25483"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:05:27","slug":"house-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/house-abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"House abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The house for generations stood,<\/p>\n<p>Gently cared for<\/p>\n<p>Now lays abandoned<\/p>\n<p>Four decades, that&#8217;s where they stayed<\/p>\n<p>Where they shared, cried, laughed and played.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ivy has taken over the south side<\/p>\n<p>Growing under the easements<\/p>\n<p>Leaving nothing to hide<\/p>\n<p>Its covered up the windows<\/p>\n<p>Taken over the rain gutter spouts<\/p>\n<p>Twisting and climbing, trying to block it out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The walkway now over grown with weeds<\/p>\n<p>Wild flowers and dandelions,<\/p>\n<p>spill their sacred seed<\/p>\n<p>The driveway now cracked and uprooted,<\/p>\n<p>The tree that was planted, too closely suited<\/p>\n<p>The house sad now, cries out<\/p>\n<p>Why did the family leave<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92016 Amanda Potter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house for generations stood, Gently cared for Now lays abandoned Four decades, that&#8217;s where they stayed Where they shared, cried, laughed and played. &nbsp; Ivy has taken over the south side Growing under the easements Leaving nothing to hide Its covered up the windows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,5],"tags":[844],"class_list":["post-25483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-844"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483","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\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29299,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions\/29299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}