{"id":37976,"date":"2017-08-05T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37976"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:34:20","slug":"the-sand-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-sand-surfers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sand Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sand Surfers<\/p>\n<p>Little boys and girls wear slick black wet suits<br \/>\nas they practice surfing on soggy sand.<br \/>\nWith arms outstretched, they pretend to balance<br \/>\nthemselves on un-waxed surfboards, as parents<br \/>\ndutifully watch them from beneath their yellow<br \/>\nbeach umbrellas. Older children who ocean<br \/>\nsurf wonder when these young fledglings will leave<br \/>\nthe safety of the unwavering sand<br \/>\nand venture into the sea, to experience<br \/>\nfirsthand the thrilling thrust of undulant<br \/>\nwaves and sea-born independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sand Surfers Little boys and girls wear slick black wet suits as they practice surfing on soggy sand. With arms outstretched, they pretend to balance themselves on un-waxed surfboards, as parents dutifully watch them from beneath their yellow beach umbrellas. Older children who ocean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37980,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37976\/revisions\/37980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}