{"id":38244,"date":"2017-08-05T20:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38244"},"modified":"2017-08-12T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T01:14:02","slug":"sunrise-on-the-eastern-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/sunrise-on-the-eastern-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise on the Eastern Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver sand takes on a crimson glow,<br \/>\nSlowly giving way to pale purple waves<br \/>\nSplashing their frothy form across the jetty.<br \/>\nSmells of salty seaweed fill the air,<br \/>\nSeagulls soaring just below a salmon colored sky.<br \/>\nSandpipers skipping to and fro hunting<br \/>\nSea snails and insects burrowing at the edge of the surf.<br \/>\nSand crabs flipping through the outgoing tide,<br \/>\nSeeking escape from their feathered foes.<br \/>\nSun is up and day begins with<br \/>\nShining shells soon cracked by bills;<br \/>\nScattered screeching of Terns and hens<br \/>\nSucking shells of Turtle eggs unhatched,<br \/>\nStrewing pieces across their nests.<br \/>\nSeems a shame, but the creator knows best,<br \/>\nSaving some&#8230; and feeding the rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 Kathleen J Kidder<br \/>\n8\/5\/2017 Hour Eleven &#8211; Half Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver sand takes on a crimson glow, Slowly giving way to pale purple waves Splashing their frothy form across the jetty. Smells of salty seaweed fill the air, Seagulls soaring just below a salmon colored sky. Sandpipers skipping to and fro hunting Sea snails and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44307,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38244\/revisions\/44307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}