{"id":26658,"date":"2016-08-14T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26658"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:06:10","slug":"maple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/maple-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"MAPLE TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandma took the hand auger,<br \/>\nchose just the right bit,<br \/>\ncut a piece of green garden hose,<br \/>\njust the right length,<br \/>\ngot a pail and went to work;<br \/>\nshe drilled a hole in the maple tree<br \/>\nin the back yard, careful to only<br \/>\npierce through bark to tree meat,<br \/>\ntapped that piece of water hose<br \/>\nin the hole she made,<br \/>\nhung the bucket on the hose<br \/>\nand waited\u2026<br \/>\nI don\u2019t remember how many days it took,<br \/>\nbut sap came seeping out of that tree<br \/>\nand she gathered her catch,<br \/>\ntook the bucket and made something<br \/>\nwith the sticky glob she carefully collected.<\/p>\n<p>Michellia D. Wilson 8\/14\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandma took the hand auger, chose just the right bit, cut a piece of green garden hose, just the right length, got a pail and went to work; she drilled a hole in the maple tree in the back yard, careful to only pierce through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26780,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions\/26780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}