{"id":49235,"date":"2019-06-22T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49235"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:48:23","slug":"flowers-prompt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/flowers-prompt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers (Prompt 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love them as they are<\/p>\n<p>leave them alone<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t pull them from the earth<\/p>\n<p>When you do, they die<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t place them in vases<\/p>\n<p>let them exist in soil<\/p>\n<p>let them breathe in life<\/p>\n<p>let them live in light<\/p>\n<p>not in water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fill your gardens<\/p>\n<p>not your countertops<\/p>\n<p>I hear your store bought flowers screaming<\/p>\n<p>give me back what\u2019s mine<\/p>\n<p>demanding life to be returned to their lungs<\/p>\n<p>until their last breath<\/p>\n<p>then you replace them with more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love them as they are leave them alone Don\u2019t pull them from the earth When you do, they die &nbsp; Don\u2019t place them in vases let them exist in soil let them breathe in life let them live in light not in water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions\/58572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}