{"id":50559,"date":"2019-06-22T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50559"},"modified":"2019-06-22T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:20:16","slug":"resurrection-fern-prompt-9-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/resurrection-fern-prompt-9-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection Fern   (prompt 9, Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From another day<br \/>\nand far away<br \/>\nsoft memories like ghosts<br \/>\nfloat through my mind<br \/>\nand ruffle my soul.<\/p>\n<p>A love of simple things,<br \/>\nlong summer days,<br \/>\nkind people with flaws,<br \/>\nbaby goats, big dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Our young eyes saw everything.<br \/>\nWe noticed small changes<br \/>\nand wondered at beginnings.<br \/>\nWe studied it all..<br \/>\nAnd loved all we saw.<\/p>\n<p>It formed our bones and it became us&#8211;<br \/>\nthe songs, the sounds, the smells,<br \/>\nashes from old fires, rusty barbed wire,<br \/>\nstored in a heart made large for memories.<br \/>\nIt was our life.<\/p>\n<p>And through it all,<br \/>\nthe spreading oak bowed low<br \/>\nto show a resurrection fern,<br \/>\nits message from the past<br \/>\nsaying it is never too late.<br \/>\nWe can always go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From another day and far away soft memories like ghosts float through my mind and ruffle my soul. A love of simple things, long summer days, kind people with flaws, baby goats, big dogs. Our young eyes saw everything. We noticed small changes and wondered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50559","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\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50982,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50559\/revisions\/50982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}