{"id":43467,"date":"2017-08-06T20:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T00:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43467"},"modified":"2017-08-06T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T00:34:37","slug":"winter-complainers-up-from-the-south-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/winter-complainers-up-from-the-south-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter complainers &#8230; up from the south     #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Winter complainers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 up from the south<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Needing to tell us<\/p>\n<p>The cold is all wrong<\/p>\n<p>And we must be crazy<\/p>\n<p>To call this place home<\/p>\n<p>Quick frankly I&#8217;m happy<\/p>\n<p>Each year when they leave<\/p>\n<p>Cold peace and quiet<\/p>\n<p>Is all that I need<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hot where they&#8217;re going<\/p>\n<p>They must keep the air cool<\/p>\n<p>In their houses and autos<\/p>\n<p>And maybe their pools<\/p>\n<p>Our winters are warming<\/p>\n<p>The skiers all know<\/p>\n<p>Even at Christmas<\/p>\n<p>We are missing some snow<\/p>\n<p>Soon leaves will be turning<\/p>\n<p>And bees stop their hum<\/p>\n<p>We all will be grateful<\/p>\n<p>For the leftover sun<\/p>\n<p>Wave goodbye to the snowbirds<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see you next spring<\/p>\n<p>After snowdrifts and ice storms<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t miss a thing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter complainers\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 up from the south Needing to tell us The cold is all wrong And we must be crazy To call this place home Quick frankly I&#8217;m happy Each year when they leave Cold peace and quiet Is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43467","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43468,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43467\/revisions\/43468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}