{"id":31962,"date":"2017-08-05T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31962"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:59:13","slug":"earth-wind-fire-and-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/earth-wind-fire-and-water-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2769\">In Florida, what delights you<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2768\">can also kill you: the beautiful<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2778\">earth where palm trees, sea<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2779\">grape, and frangipani grows can<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2767\">also swallow you up in a sinkhole.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2766\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2765\">That wonderful sea breeze a certain<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2764\">poet told me you can feel blowing<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2761\">all the way from Spain at night if you<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2788\">stand under the lighthouse on Anastasia<\/div>\n<div>Island? That very one can blow to hell<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2789\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2790\">anything and anyone you love. And as for<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2791\">fire, we love to tan ourselves by the glow<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2792\">of the sun, but that burning orb is bearing<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2793\">down on us from above, bringing climate<\/div>\n<div>change and melanoma as we speak.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2804\">That ocean you love? A tsunami, in the right<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2794\">wind, so don&#8217;t get too comfortable. All the rivers<\/div>\n<div>have alligators, too, and snakes. Before you make<\/div>\n<div>the mistake of selling everything and moving here, be aware.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2795\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501941129651_2796\">On the other hand, there&#8217;s a party at the beach on New Year&#8217;s<\/div>\n<div>Day. You&#8217;re invited &#8211; bring a dish. And of course, sunscreen!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water In Florida, what delights you can also kill you: the beautiful earth where palm trees, sea grape, and frangipani grows can also swallow you up in a sinkhole. That wonderful sea breeze a certain poet told me you can feel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31962","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32055,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31962\/revisions\/32055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}