{"id":36655,"date":"2017-08-05T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:30:45","slug":"hour-nine-non-rhyming-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-nine-non-rhyming-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine, Non rhyming Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tenacity<\/p>\n<p>I stood in my open back door<br \/>\none strangely wet desert morning,<br \/>\nthe rainy season&#8217;s nightly offering<br \/>\nwilting my damp clothes against<br \/>\nan already hot body.<\/p>\n<p>Stone walls enclosed a space<br \/>\nwe misplaced Midwesterners<br \/>\nhad desperately attempted to make<br \/>\ngreen and fruitful, somewhat succeeding<br \/>\nwith struggling grass and stunted<br \/>\nsunflowers, exclaiming in delight<br \/>\nover each tomato and herb that survived<br \/>\nwith diligent watering and spotty shade.<\/p>\n<p>As I gazed at the small green space,<br \/>\nI marveled at a hovering, glimmering<br \/>\nstrand, a single thread, stretched<br \/>\nbetween a palm tree and a sunflower,<br \/>\nimpressing me so with its strength<br \/>\nand tenacity in the morning breeze<br \/>\nthat suddenly I felt both humbled<br \/>\nand grateful, just from the display<br \/>\nof one determined and agile spider,<br \/>\nand a single thread, gleaming<br \/>\nin the early morning light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenacity I stood in my open back door one strangely wet desert morning, the rainy season&#8217;s nightly offering wilting my damp clothes against an already hot body. Stone walls enclosed a space we misplaced Midwesterners had desperately attempted to make green and fruitful, somewhat succeeding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36762,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655\/revisions\/36762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}