{"id":52589,"date":"2019-06-22T19:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52589"},"modified":"2019-06-29T09:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:35:14","slug":"retirement-rendezvous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/retirement-rendezvous\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Rendezvous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement Rendezvous<\/p>\n<p>Each morning walking<br \/>\nthrough the concrete city streets<br \/>\na misty fog forms<br \/>\nI breathe in deeply<br \/>\nso the damp wet aroma<br \/>\nfills up my body<\/p>\n<p>Same each day, walk through<br \/>\nthe city, city becomes<br \/>\na country forest<br \/>\nTrees proliferate<br \/>\nwith piney fir scented paths<br \/>\nleading to the dock<\/p>\n<p>Almost to the end<br \/>\nof the walk through my Eden<br \/>\nthe silent hush breaks<br \/>\ninto birdsong and water<br \/>\nrushing to the forest end<br \/>\nforming a clear lake<\/p>\n<p>I walk further down<br \/>\nto my secret sandy spot<br \/>\nhiding a rock shelf<br \/>\nholding my canteen<br \/>\nof sweet espresso coffee<br \/>\nsipping and thinking<\/p>\n<p>Sun sets down, bats fly<br \/>\nmoonbeams light my way homeward<br \/>\nto retirement\u2026..<br \/>\nDAMN fine life<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Diane Morinich<br \/>\n  All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement Rendezvous Each morning walking through the concrete city streets a misty fog forms I breathe in deeply so the damp wet aroma fills up my body Same each day, walk through the city, city becomes a country forest Trees proliferate with piney fir scented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","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\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58841,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/58841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}