{"id":40853,"date":"2017-08-06T02:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40853"},"modified":"2017-08-06T02:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T06:20:57","slug":"hour-18-pulling-up-the-little-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-18-pulling-up-the-little-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18: Pulling Up the Little Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling Up the Little Trees<\/p>\n<p>Among the regular lawn weeds<br \/>\nThe little trees are easy to spot<br \/>\nThree to five inch woody stems<br \/>\nWith an umbrella of familiar-looking leaves<\/p>\n<p>When I pull them from the damp soil<br \/>\nThey release more easily than I expect<br \/>\nI note the long tap roots<br \/>\nEach had planned to stay put<\/p>\n<p>But they were born in the wrong spot<br \/>\nAround the AC unit, in the gravel beds<br \/>\nThat encircle the house, rooting<br \/>\nBetween the boarder planks<\/p>\n<p>It is needful work, to protect the foundation<br \/>\nOf the very house in which I dwell<br \/>\nAnd yet, how sad to kill something<br \/>\nSo young, so full of life and hope<\/p>\n<p>And though these trees are now dead<br \/>\nIf we were to pack our bags and go<br \/>\nHow soon before the forest returned?<br \/>\nTo erase the evidence of our existence?<\/p>\n<p>I find this to be a promising thought<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling Up the Little Trees Among the regular lawn weeds The little trees are easy to spot Three to five inch woody stems With an umbrella of familiar-looking leaves When I pull them from the damp soil They release more easily than I expect I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40853","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40860,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40853\/revisions\/40860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}