{"id":36852,"date":"2017-08-05T18:47:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36852"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:47:06","slug":"colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUR TEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The color Purple- bellflowers,<br \/>\nlavender scented soaps, tulips<br \/>\nand eggplants- the soil is warm<br \/>\nidle garden glove under<br \/>\nthe summer sun- lilac into verdant mulberry<br \/>\nartichokes hand-picked from the home garden<\/p>\n<p>Seedlings sprouts into another flower.<\/p>\n<p>Red as Sindoor, Henna, spice chai,<br \/>\npoppy flowers, Cardinal, watermelon,<br \/>\nred paprika in Goulash, Wine<br \/>\nand sometimes<br \/>\ndying embers from the ceremonial worship<br \/>\ncrisp red roses for the wedding day<br \/>\nCandied Carrots- apple Murabba<br \/>\nin plain jars- another specialty of grandma.<\/p>\n<p>Orange as pumpkins in the Halloween<br \/>\nCosta Rica Clementine in a supermarket<br \/>\nMonarch butterfly and sunset<br \/>\nSaffron as perfumed sunbeams<\/p>\n<p>Yellow as a Sunflowers, turmeric,<br \/>\ndandelions in the backyard, corn cob<br \/>\nand school bus<br \/>\nYellow sands of Arizona- handiwork of nature<\/p>\n<p>Green as cactus and vines dangling from the gazebo<br \/>\nbutton flowers, lettuce in the salad bowl,<br \/>\nand emerald eyes of my cat<\/p>\n<p>White as a snowflake, lilies, paper boats,<br \/>\nthe moon, and stars;<br \/>\nThe color Sapphire as the midnight sky and heirloom gemstone.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my color list for you- a colorful bouquet, crayon-box,<br \/>\nrainbow and quaint dye shop.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyrighted by Ruchi Chopra, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUR TEN The color Purple- bellflowers, lavender scented soaps, tulips and eggplants- the soil is warm idle garden glove under the summer sun- lilac into verdant mulberry artichokes hand-picked from the home garden Seedlings sprouts into another flower. Red as Sindoor, Henna, spice chai, poppy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[665,2430,10],"class_list":["post-36852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-colors","tag-hourten","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852","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\/947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37456,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions\/37456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}