{"id":34160,"date":"2017-08-05T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34160"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:45:42","slug":"alki-beach-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/alki-beach-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Alki Beach Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alki Beach Treats<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Catch the breeze, salty air, long ago I was there, daily.<\/p>\n<p>Walks with friends, sit awhile, cop a smile, peace lives next door.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore the crowds, beach ball and games, they have no shame.<\/p>\n<p>Pebbles and seaweed, shells and driftwood, the treasures so good, so true.<\/p>\n<p>Fish and chips, cookies and coffee, cement board walk to enjoy, pleasures galore.<\/p>\n<p>Senses are heightened, his hand in hers, true love still stirs.<\/p>\n<p>Even after fifty years, he is hers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mary-Jeanne Smith<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34226\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alki-Beach-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alki-Beach-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alki-Beach.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alki Beach is in West Seattle in Washington State. I visited it all through my childhood. I especially have fond memories of spending time there with my grandparents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alki Beach Treats &nbsp; Catch the breeze, salty air, long ago I was there, daily. Walks with friends, sit awhile, cop a smile, peace lives next door. Ignore the crowds, beach ball and games, they have no shame. Pebbles and seaweed, shells and driftwood, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160","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\/833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34249,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160\/revisions\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}