{"id":27451,"date":"2016-08-14T04:54:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T08:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27451"},"modified":"2016-08-14T04:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T08:54:37","slug":"poem-no-20-the-summer-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-no-20-the-summer-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem no. 20: The Summer Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If she could have her way, she said,<br \/>\nShe would have liked to own a summer clock;<br \/>\nA gleaming, simple timepiece<br \/>\nTo gather time \u2013 not pass it &#8211;<br \/>\nPlaced snugly in a corner of the room. <\/p>\n<p>It would take hold of summer time, she said,<br \/>\nCatching the moments of light each day<br \/>\nTo keep away the long, dark winter hours.<br \/>\nAnd there would be a corner of her house<br \/>\nThat would remain afire. <\/p>\n<p>She said this in a wistful tone, soft as a dawn,<br \/>\nThen turned her hopeful gaze to me.<br \/>\nBut in seeing, she looked far beyond me, now,<br \/>\nTo the lowering darkness of the October day. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Anne McMaster 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If she could have her way, she said, She would have liked to own a summer clock; A gleaming, simple timepiece To gather time \u2013 not pass it &#8211; Placed snugly in a corner of the room. It would take hold of summer time, she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27455,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27451\/revisions\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}