{"id":48062,"date":"2019-06-22T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48062"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:01:40","slug":"backyard-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/backyard-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I open the creaky porch door and march outside with vigor<br \/>\nA warm, humid wind bursts onto face and tiring times await<\/p>\n<p>The long and coarse grass hails my arrival<br \/>\nIts spiny ends prickle my heels and brush my toes<br \/>\nI feel the dew on each individual grassy leaf<br \/>\nAnd press down on the dampness with my 10.5 feet<\/p>\n<p>The ground has much to offer and all, I take<br \/>\nClay deposits harbor worms and choke all growth<br \/>\nShovels dig deep and into the Earth we go<br \/>\nTo plant an artificial tree, a metallic TV satellite<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Utkarsh Sharma (ManuDrama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I open the creaky porch door and march outside with vigor A warm, humid wind bursts onto face and tiring times await The long and coarse grass hails my arrival Its spiny ends prickle my heels and brush my toes I feel the dew on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49660,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48062\/revisions\/49660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}