{"id":33969,"date":"2017-08-05T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33969"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:38:37","slug":"bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on the 4th of July<br \/>\nafter the parade<br \/>\nall of the children<br \/>\ngathered in the field on the north side of the fairgrounds<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>this ground was safe,<br \/>\nfor children to run and reach and scramble<br \/>\nchosen for its safety<br \/>\nsurrounded by a fence<br \/>\nkeeping all the children inside<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>a bulls eye for one<br \/>\nthis field of children<br \/>\nlooking up<br \/>\nanticipating<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>a perimeter of parents<br \/>\ncameras<br \/>\nbeer in plastic cups<br \/>\nwaiting and watching<br \/>\nthese children<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>the distant hum<br \/>\nof a small plane<br \/>\na crop duster<br \/>\nswinging low<br \/>\nwith a cargo of 1000 ping pong balls<br \/>\ndropped over the field<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>falling like feathers<br \/>\nthat bounce<br \/>\nor are caught in small hands<br \/>\nchildren like mother hens sheltering eggs<br \/>\nfill their make shift t-shirt basket nests<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n<p>treasures,<br \/>\nnot only ping pong balls<br \/>\nbut ping pong balls stamped with fair prizes<br \/>\na hot dog<br \/>\na slushy<br \/>\nor perhaps a five-dollar bill<br \/>\nand all the children leave the field with bounty<br \/>\non cloud nine<br \/>\ntogether<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the 4th of July after the parade all of the children gathered in the field on the north side of the fairgrounds together this ground was safe, for children to run and reach and scramble chosen for its safety surrounded by a fence keeping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34173,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969\/revisions\/34173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}