{"id":43174,"date":"2017-08-06T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43174"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:46:48","slug":"1524-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/1524-longing\/","title":{"rendered":"(#15\/24): \u201cLonging\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along the Wei River,<\/p>\n<p>My train meanders its way through Shaanxi.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the Loess Plateau degrades,<\/p>\n<p>Apple trees can still bloom in spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recall steaming bowls of hot soup<\/p>\n<p>Generously ladled out by mother.<\/p>\n<p>I whet my lips in anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, I am already home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the Wei River, My train meanders its way through Shaanxi. Even as the Loess Plateau degrades, Apple trees can still bloom in spring. &nbsp; I recall steaming bowls of hot soup Generously ladled out by mother. I whet my lips in anticipation. In my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43174","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43183,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43174\/revisions\/43183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}