{"id":34428,"date":"2017-08-05T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34428"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:44:30","slug":"countryside-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/countryside-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Countryside Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what bliss it is,<br \/>\nGrandkids on the ottoman,<br \/>\nSpin and somersault.<\/p>\n<p>Carpet ice-skating,<br \/>\nTo the the tune of her spinning,<br \/>\nNot a box, a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Do I hear a squeak?<br \/>\nYes, they pretend to be mice,<br \/>\nHiding on the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>They build a city,<br \/>\nWith blocks on the pastry board,<br \/>\nWelp, no more pastries.<\/p>\n<p>Yard sale on the lawn,<br \/>\nLemonade, one quarter please,<br \/>\nThey have cookies too.<\/p>\n<p>Dogwood berry balls,<br \/>\nBaseball bat covered in juice,<br \/>\nRipe for the hitting.<\/p>\n<p>Dancing in the rain,<br \/>\nUmbrella sheltering them,<br \/>\nMuddy toes, that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go sledding,<br \/>\nThey hope not to hit a tree,<br \/>\nFire place, hot cocoa.<\/p>\n<p>Sleeping on the couch,<br \/>\nOprah on television,<br \/>\nOh, what bliss it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what bliss it is, Grandkids on the ottoman, Spin and somersault. Carpet ice-skating, To the the tune of her spinning, Not a box, a girl. Do I hear a squeak? Yes, they pretend to be mice, Hiding on the stairs. They build a city,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428","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\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34449,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34428\/revisions\/34449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}