{"id":41479,"date":"2017-08-06T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41479"},"modified":"2017-08-06T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:13:26","slug":"cohens-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/cohens-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"cohen&#8217;s flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>cohen\u2019s flowers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s right there,<\/p>\n<p>those flowers in the concrete<\/p>\n<p>on corners<\/p>\n<p>choking on dust and exhaust<\/p>\n<p>but surviving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They always remind me of Cohen,<\/p>\n<p>from <em>Anthem,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>y\u2019know, the line about the cracks letting light in?<\/p>\n<p>Those miracle flowers growing in the city<\/p>\n<p>on streets where nothing is left alive,<\/p>\n<p>in body or soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s hope<\/p>\n<p>for us to harvest later.<\/p>\n<p>R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Aug 5\/17 prompt 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cohen\u2019s flowers &nbsp; It\u2019s right there, those flowers in the concrete on corners choking on dust and exhaust but surviving. &nbsp; They always remind me of Cohen, from Anthem, y\u2019know, the line about the cracks letting light in? Those miracle flowers growing in the city&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41481,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479\/revisions\/41481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}