{"id":48168,"date":"2019-06-22T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48168"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:01:21","slug":"into-the-garden-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/into-the-garden-i-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Garden I Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Well, I wish it were that easy.\r\nTo be fully prepared.\r\nI spent a good chunk of time \r\nShowering and getting ready\r\nTo go out in the garden.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s beautiful, this first day of summer.\r\nOnly the smallest white clouds \r\nReveal exactly how blue the sky can be.\r\n\r\nI breathe and force myself to slow down\r\nNever prepared means always rushing\r\nOr giving up.\r\nI take my time and feel \r\nThe summer garden envelops me.\r\n\r\nIt is quiet in the garden,\r\nbut only for a short time, \r\nwhen yet another neighbor \r\nUses his Saturday to drill the weeds \r\nAs a dentist works a cavity, \r\nOr revs his engine so the smell \r\nOf freshly cut clover is replaced with exhaust.\r\n\r\nLooking up at the sound of a plane, \r\nI see it pulling a shiny glider behind.\r\nSoon the winds carry it toward us,\r\nIn a slow, lazy pattern of tacks.\r\nStill high in the sky\r\nAnd on the breeze.\r\n\r\nI relish the quiet \r\nAnd breathe again.\r\nStaying in the garden now\r\nTo watch creation unfold\r\nOn this summer\u2019s day.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I wish it were that easy. To be fully prepared. I spent a good chunk of time Showering and getting ready To go out in the garden. It\u2019s beautiful, this first day of summer. Only the smallest white clouds Reveal exactly how blue the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[2180],"class_list":["post-48168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48339,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48168\/revisions\/48339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}