{"id":32443,"date":"2017-08-05T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32443"},"modified":"2017-08-05T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T14:40:14","slug":"bedtime-story-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bedtime-story-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime Story #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bedtime Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When there are more leaves than people<\/p>\n<p>Bluebirds and cardinals suffer few fools<\/p>\n<p>Doves&#8217; anniversary under peeling birch<\/p>\n<p>Crows demand brunch without humor<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what transpires<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The long willow sways, the maple flutters<\/p>\n<p>Blue spruce needles burst at fingertips<\/p>\n<p>Squirrels hustle, glide with abandon<\/p>\n<p>Chickadees visit in moments as summer lingers<\/p>\n<p>Shade behind sunlight stretches in green time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bats long gone from night shadows<\/p>\n<p>Are mourned while honeybees persist<\/p>\n<p>No intended flowers grow here<\/p>\n<p>Paintbrushes and lilies and daisies<\/p>\n<p>Spread only by the warm breath of God<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The muddy brook clears from the storm<\/p>\n<p>Few disturbed leaves have fallen<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you remember green my child<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mother soothes reminiscing<\/p>\n<p><em>It was all very beautiful<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedtime Story &nbsp; When there are more leaves than people Bluebirds and cardinals suffer few fools Doves&#8217; anniversary under peeling birch Crows demand brunch without humor Knowing what transpires &nbsp; The long willow sways, the maple flutters Blue spruce needles burst at fingertips Squirrels hustle,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32517,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32443\/revisions\/32517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}