{"id":26577,"date":"2016-08-14T02:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:07:13","slug":"our-lady-of-the-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/our-lady-of-the-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26602\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lady-butterfly-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"lady butterfly\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lady-butterfly-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lady-butterfly-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lady-butterfly.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lady-butterfly-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>once in a land of ordinary women<\/p>\n<p>lived a sprite<\/p>\n<p>neither coddled<\/p>\n<p>nor contrite.<\/p>\n<p>She flew among<\/p>\n<p>ones who could not believe,<\/p>\n<p>carried to the unbelievers<\/p>\n<p>the seed of the transformation<\/p>\n<p>hat brought resurrection to a moribund<\/p>\n<p>group who followed the sprite<\/p>\n<p>wherever words were sought.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady wore her talisman<\/p>\n<p>along with a colorful crystal<\/p>\n<p>amulet that encouraged use<\/p>\n<p>of daily poems upon rising<\/p>\n<p>and single words before<\/p>\n<p>sleeping or resting. Today<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady of the Butterflies<\/p>\n<p>flies to another land.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; once in a land of ordinary women lived a sprite neither coddled nor contrite. She flew among ones who could not believe, carried to the unbelievers the seed of the transformation hat brought resurrection to a moribund group who followed the sprite wherever words&#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-26577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577","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=26577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26782,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions\/26782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}