{"id":51652,"date":"2019-06-22T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51652"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:29:18","slug":"half-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/half-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hour Nine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Half Magic<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My life has been a carrot, erupting though dirt.<\/p>\n<p>I first was a sprig of green, blown by wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then my crown pushed up to reveal<\/p>\n<p>a much bigger me, coated in dirt<\/p>\n<p>that knew I was part of a field<\/p>\n<p>other carrots all around, not alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sun and rain fed me, made me strong.<\/p>\n<p>I was self-sustaining and certain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one told me about rabbits<\/p>\n<p>or farmers with hoes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and now this happy story turns to<\/p>\n<p>one of woe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hour Nine &nbsp; Half Magic &nbsp; &nbsp; My life has been a carrot, erupting though dirt. I first was a sprig of green, blown by wind. &nbsp; Then my crown pushed up to reveal a much bigger me, coated in dirt that knew I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51655,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51652\/revisions\/51655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}