{"id":36375,"date":"2017-08-05T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36375"},"modified":"2017-08-07T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T16:29:19","slug":"the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pond at the end of Clearview Street<br \/>\nwasn\u2019t much of a pond, really.<br \/>\nMore of a puddle.<br \/>\nA big puddle.<\/p>\n<p>A big, scary puddle that I vaguely recall<br \/>\nas the place where only boys could go.<\/p>\n<p>A low spot in an otherwise<br \/>\nflat<br \/>\nlandscape,<br \/>\nfeatureless fields of rice<br \/>\nand cotton mouths.<\/p>\n<p>In dreams I find the pond<br \/>\nnearby lots empty.<br \/>\nhouses gone that once were<br \/>\nvibrant with other lives.<\/p>\n<p>I want to walk their path,<br \/>\nyet, I am bound to the street.<br \/>\na kid imprisoned by such<br \/>\nstrange<br \/>\nfate.<\/p>\n<p>Flood covered hooves,<br \/>\nbuckets of rain,<br \/>\ndeluge for days<br \/>\ndrained<br \/>\nall<br \/>\ntoo<br \/>\nsowly<\/p>\n<p>across saturated clay.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they stay.<\/p>\n<p>They stay<br \/>\nand say<br \/>\n\u201cIt was a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pond at the end of Clearview Street wasn\u2019t much of a pond, really. More of a puddle. A big puddle. A big, scary puddle that I vaguely recall as the place where only boys could go. A low spot in an otherwise flat landscape,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36375","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43577,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36375\/revisions\/43577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}