{"id":47755,"date":"2019-06-22T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47755"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:38:29","slug":"seeds-of-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/seeds-of-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see the promise has been kept&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The seeds have turned to bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Early planted, in the spring,<\/p>\n<p>Too much rain, I feared, had doomed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But soon the sprouts broke through the soil,<\/p>\n<p>Then taller, grew each day.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a rainbow shines among<\/p>\n<p>My garden, in display.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pinks and orange, red and white,<\/p>\n<p>With fragrance, nostrils fill;<\/p>\n<p>Those seeds that fell beneath the ground&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Their purpose was instilled:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To bring delight to those who pass<\/p>\n<p>Beside the road&#8211;so hidden&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Their quiet beauty shouting loud,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find me, and love the given.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the promise has been kept&#8211; The seeds have turned to bloom. Early planted, in the spring, Too much rain, I feared, had doomed. &nbsp; But soon the sprouts broke through the soil, Then taller, grew each day. And now, a rainbow shines among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47755","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\/1265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48055,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47755\/revisions\/48055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}