{"id":52487,"date":"2019-06-22T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52487"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:53:15","slug":"poem-11-a-simple-copper-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poem-11-a-simple-copper-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 11: &#8220;A Simple Copper Thing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;A Simple Copper Thing&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>they&#8217;re just pennies<\/p>\n<div>I agree they&#8217;re lovely!<\/p>\n<div>shiny little copper pretties thrown into fountains<\/div>\n<div>an abundance of them can be a blessing<\/div>\n<div>but it&#8217;s not the genie answer to\u00a0 necessity of spirit<\/div>\n<div>for whether there are two to put in a gumball machine<\/div>\n<div>or one you pick up along the path carrying a story<\/div>\n<div>or a multiplicity sitting lonely somewhere guarded by a leprechaun<\/div>\n<div>they&#8217;re just pennies.<\/div>\n<div>you can wish upon them but they won&#8217;t make you happy<\/div>\n<div>you can hold on to them but they won&#8217;t create generosity of soul<\/div>\n<div>you can give them away but it doesn&#8217;t magically change the giver<\/div>\n<div>they&#8217;re just lovely little pieces of fleeting pleasure<\/div>\n<div>meant to be spent wisely<\/div>\n<div>with the understanding that your personal definition of self<\/div>\n<div>is worth mountains more than a simple copper thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Simple Copper Thing&#8221; by Mandy Austin Cook they&#8217;re just pennies I agree they&#8217;re lovely! shiny little copper pretties thrown into fountains an abundance of them can be a blessing but it&#8217;s not the genie answer to\u00a0 necessity of spirit for whether there are two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52511,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487\/revisions\/52511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}