{"id":46752,"date":"2019-06-22T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46752"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:28:01","slug":"poem-2-a-farmers-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-2-a-farmers-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2:  &#8220;A Farmer&#8217;s Childhood&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Farmer&#8217;s Childhood&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>pots and pans clanging<\/div>\n<div>over an unlit campfire<\/div>\n<div>and a tablecloth lean-to<\/div>\n<div>that Pappaw made himself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>a girl scout patch jacket<\/div>\n<div>warm embraces of apple blossom breezes<\/div>\n<div>and a pocket knife that whittles<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>go moo at Mr. Bull and he will moo back<\/div>\n<div>pat his head through the gate:\u00a0 \u00a0we won&#8217;t tell anybody<\/div>\n<div>that he only LOOKS like he&#8217;s mean.<\/div>\n<div>(he says it&#8217;s a secret)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0the baby ducks will love you<\/div>\n<div>following you around chattering their constant affection<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>go to the creek<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0to tickle the tiny turtle in the path<\/div>\n<div>and his name from now on\u00a0 shall be Abner.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Farmer&#8217;s Childhood&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook pots and pans clanging over an unlit campfire and a tablecloth lean-to that Pappaw made himself. a girl scout patch jacket warm embraces of apple blossom breezes and a pocket knife that whittles go moo at Mr. Bull&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46752","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47265,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46752\/revisions\/47265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}