{"id":48445,"date":"2019-06-22T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48445"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T23:15:21","slug":"the-color-of-melancholy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-color-of-melancholy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Melancholy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the grass fields,<\/p>\n<p>sucking on lavender roots;<\/p>\n<p>some bitter reminder that<\/p>\n<p>yesterday is forever gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Riding with no saddle along<\/p>\n<p>cobblestone roads, broken<\/p>\n<p>by centuries of chains.<\/p>\n<p>Confetti flecks of crimson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sunny hours marked by<\/p>\n<p>midday drizzles, and the<\/p>\n<p>prisms of color left behind:<\/p>\n<p>holy and hollow both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wild winter nights under<\/p>\n<p>midnight blankets pocked<\/p>\n<p>with quartzite watchers<\/p>\n<p>who never dared touch us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in the grass fields, sucking on lavender roots; some bitter reminder that yesterday is forever gone. &nbsp; Riding with no saddle along cobblestone roads, broken by centuries of chains. Confetti flecks of crimson. &nbsp; Sunny hours marked by midday drizzles, and the prisms of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48445","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\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59452,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48445\/revisions\/59452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}