{"id":37634,"date":"2017-08-05T19:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37634"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:14:51","slug":"butterscotch-sunbeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/butterscotch-sunbeam\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterscotch Sunbeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butterscotch Sunbeam<br \/>\nVCS <\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon<br \/>\nWhen things get still and slow<br \/>\nI watch a little sunbeam<br \/>\nThat escaped into my room<br \/>\nAll is quiet and dim<br \/>\nExcept for the roar of that<br \/>\nLittle drip of sun<br \/>\nAnd the scent of butterscotch<br \/>\nRunning off it&#8217;s light<br \/>\nAnd puddling onto hardwood floors<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know how it got here<br \/>\nOr where its friends are at play<br \/>\nBut this little sunbeam<br \/>\nHas fallen my way<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s as loud as a freight train<br \/>\nIn the otherwise dark room<br \/>\nDimmed for an afternoon nap<br \/>\nAfter the rising of noon<br \/>\nIt shines its spotlight on every spot of dust<br \/>\nAnd lets me know its noticed<br \/>\nEvery bit of muss<br \/>\nEven though it woke me up<br \/>\nWith its demand to play<br \/>\ndripping with sweetness<br \/>\nTo remind me of the summer day<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s impossible to do anything<br \/>\nBut smile in a wistful way<br \/>\nThe sunbeam&#8217;s found her friends<br \/>\nAnd vanished in her play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butterscotch Sunbeam VCS In the afternoon When things get still and slow I watch a little sunbeam That escaped into my room All is quiet and dim Except for the roar of that Little drip of sun And the scent of butterscotch Running off it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions\/37722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}