{"id":38003,"date":"2017-08-05T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38003"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:36:10","slug":"the-poets-island-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-poets-island-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet&#8217;s Island Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Poet\u2019s Island Produce<\/p>\n<p>In island solitude<br \/>\nthe poet waits for inspiration<br \/>\nlike her backyard fig tree waits for rain,<br \/>\nespecially during a summertime drought. <\/p>\n<p>She knows that insight,<br \/>\nthat small ripe fruit from trees,<br \/>\nis often tough to produce,<br \/>\nespecially during late lazy August.<br \/>\nBut after a soaking shower arrives,<br \/>\nall produce: the tree, the insight, the poet.<\/p>\n<p>The poet\u2019s now ready to share her figs<br \/>\nwith her readers who pick each fruit<br \/>\none by one, savor, and then devour,<br \/>\nmaking sure no morsel goes to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Like vacationers on tropical atolls<br \/>\nreaders smile, satisfied as they return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poet\u2019s Island Produce In island solitude the poet waits for inspiration like her backyard fig tree waits for rain, especially during a summertime drought. She knows that insight, that small ripe fruit from trees, is often tough to produce, especially during late lazy August&#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-38003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003","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=38003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38009,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003\/revisions\/38009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}