{"id":52426,"date":"2019-06-22T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52426"},"modified":"2020-06-29T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T21:12:28","slug":"1973-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/1973-peat\/","title":{"rendered":"1973-peat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dock at the lake<br \/>\nhome of grandparents<br \/>\nwas my summer hangout<\/p>\n<p>Monument of sturdy<br \/>\nsimplicity<\/p>\n<p>fir one-by-four planks<br \/>\nnailed to two-by-four<br \/>\nstud framing<br \/>\nwith number eight nails<br \/>\nanchored on<br \/>\ngalvanized steel pipes<\/p>\n<p>fifty-feet from my<br \/>\nbedroom window it would<br \/>\nhide in morning fog<\/p>\n<p>refract moonbeams on<br \/>\ncloudless nights<br \/>\nlull me to sleep<\/p>\n<p>clapped by gentle waves<br \/>\nin harmony with<br \/>\ndeepening hush of<br \/>\nthe Northwoods on a<br \/>\nsummer\u2019s night<\/p>\n<p>painted blueish-gray<br \/>\nsometimes at dusk it would<br \/>\ndissolve into the water<br \/>\njust as it all dissolved<br \/>\ninto me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2019<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dock at the lake home of grandparents was my summer hangout Monument of sturdy simplicity fir one-by-four planks nailed to two-by-four stud framing with number eight nails anchored on galvanized steel pipes fifty-feet from my bedroom window it would hide in morning fog refract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52426","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77646,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52426\/revisions\/77646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}