{"id":31715,"date":"2017-08-05T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31715"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:37:52","slug":"life-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/life-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is life.<\/p>\n<p>First the leaves rustle,<\/p>\n<p>gentle with the promise<\/p>\n<p>of more to come. Then<\/p>\n<p>a crow calls lifting itself<\/p>\n<p>above the boughs and rustling<\/p>\n<p>leaves. On the covered ground<\/p>\n<p>animals scurry into hiding or<\/p>\n<p>flee across the way. Orange and<\/p>\n<p>red blazes through, leaving<\/p>\n<p>smoldering black in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Finally the sky turns gray and the<\/p>\n<p>rain drops down. The earth hisses and<\/p>\n<p>steams. Then, the green begins to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Life begins again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is life. First the leaves rustle, gentle with the promise of more to come. Then a crow calls lifting itself above the boughs and rustling leaves. On the covered ground animals scurry into hiding or flee across the way. Orange and red blazes through,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715","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\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31757,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715\/revisions\/31757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}