{"id":41974,"date":"2017-08-06T05:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41974"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:39:59","slug":"drought-hour-20-pm-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/drought-hour-20-pm-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DROUGHT     (hour 20, PM 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No rain in nearly two months.<\/p>\n<p>The sunshine is glorious, but with no access<\/p>\n<p>to an outdoor spigot or hose, I struggle<\/p>\n<p>to water the garden\u2019s plants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The balcony is long as the house, my mistress\u2019s plants plentiful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s turned her back.<\/p>\n<p>Again. Walked away;<\/p>\n<p>we\u2019re no longer speaking.<\/p>\n<p>The watering can almost empty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The balcony is long as the house, my mistress\u2019s plants plentiful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42003\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Morisot-Young-Woman-Watering-a-Shrub-1876-Virginia-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-Richmond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Berthe Morisot, Young Woman Watering a Shrub, 1876 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No rain in nearly two months. The sunshine is glorious, but with no access to an outdoor spigot or hose, I struggle to water the garden\u2019s plants. &nbsp; The balcony is long as the house, my mistress\u2019s plants plentiful. &nbsp; She\u2019s turned her back. Again&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974","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\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42010,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions\/42010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}