{"id":33919,"date":"2017-08-05T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33919"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:34:00","slug":"abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/abandoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a hidden valley<br \/>\nWith tall, waving grass<br \/>\nThere is a small house<br \/>\nRun down and abandoned<br \/>\nTime has not been kind<br \/>\nWindows have been broken<br \/>\nThe door is nowhere to be seen<br \/>\nA few appliances, left behind<br \/>\nBy those who once occupied<br \/>\nThe wooden structure<\/p>\n<p>Where did they go?<br \/>\nWhy did they leave?<br \/>\nWere things just too hard<br \/>\nFor them to stay?<br \/>\nDid something awful happen?<br \/>\nWere they driven away?<br \/>\nMaybe the house<br \/>\nJust wasn\u2019t enough<\/p>\n<p>In a little room<br \/>\nWith high, dusty light fixtures<br \/>\nThere is a small child<br \/>\nRagged and abandoned<br \/>\nLife has not been kind<br \/>\nHis spirit has been broken<br \/>\nHis hope nowhere to be seen<br \/>\nNo keepsakes left behind<br \/>\nBy the ones who brought him<br \/>\nInto this harsh world<\/p>\n<p>Where did they go?<br \/>\nWhy did they leave?<br \/>\nWere things just too hard<br \/>\nFor them to stay?<br \/>\nDid something awful happen?<br \/>\nWere they driven apart?<br \/>\nMaybe the child<br \/>\nJust wasn\u2019t enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hidden valley With tall, waving grass There is a small house Run down and abandoned Time has not been kind Windows have been broken The door is nowhere to be seen A few appliances, left behind By those who once occupied The wooden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89717,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33919\/revisions\/89717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}