{"id":34753,"date":"2017-08-05T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34753"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:19:57","slug":"the-deer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-deer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34769\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1337-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1337-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1337-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1337-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A deer is in the graveyard<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Watching over the forgotten souls<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wandering peacefully amid the headstones<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Grazing, resting, with no goals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>As I wander within the graveyard<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My eyes dart to the deer<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I cannot keep myself from wondering <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Just why that deer is staying here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Is the deer the keeper of the lost?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Is he the watcher of the time?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Why does he stand among the tombs?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He bids their passing a gentle goodbye.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deer is in the graveyard Watching over the forgotten souls Wandering peacefully amid the headstones Grazing, resting, with no goals. As I wander within the graveyard My eyes dart to the deer I cannot keep myself from wondering Just why that deer is staying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34753","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34801,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34753\/revisions\/34801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}