{"id":48390,"date":"2019-06-22T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48390"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:22:41","slug":"4-yearly-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/4-yearly-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Yearly Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48401 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prompt-5-for-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prompt-5-for-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prompt-5-for-4-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I noticed you the Spring following<br \/>\nAt first, I believed myself foolish to think you&#8217;d go to the trouble<\/p>\n<p>You were always so quick to go unnoticed<br \/>\nIf at all possible<\/p>\n<p>The Quiet Man, mom would call you<br \/>\nJust like the movie<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d land on my car, right by the door.<br \/>\nHard as I tried, without harm, I&#8217;d shoo you away<\/p>\n<p>And you would, only to land on the steel fence right next to me<br \/>\nOnce or twice, even landing on my arm or hand<\/p>\n<p>At the time, you were just another insect<br \/>\nA life that flitted about in search of your purpose<\/p>\n<p>A year later you appeared again<br \/>\nSame coloration, same routine of<br \/>\ncar,<br \/>\nshoulder,<br \/>\nfence<\/p>\n<p>And every year after, since, you return<br \/>\nSure as the seasons<\/p>\n<p>Never before then, though<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how I know it&#8217;s you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed you the Spring following At first, I believed myself foolish to think you&#8217;d go to the trouble You were always so quick to go unnoticed If at all possible The Quiet Man, mom would call you Just like the movie You&#8217;d land on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48627,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390\/revisions\/48627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}