{"id":54327,"date":"2019-06-22T22:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54327"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:22:15","slug":"life-and-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/life-and-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The land knows you, even when you are lost.<br \/>\nIgnorance of the land comes at much too high a cost.<br \/>\nWhen your feet leave the trodden path<br \/>\nFollow the signs, or face its wrath.<br \/>\nThe wind blows with a slurry of tempo<br \/>\nThrough the trees, dropping leaves below<br \/>\nLike meeting people who breeze into your life<br \/>\nWho, in leaving, cut your soul like a knife.<br \/>\nThe birds bring song that floats in the air<br \/>\nFlying so high with nary a care.<br \/>\nLife can bring music that touches your soul<br \/>\nRaising you up to reach your goals.<br \/>\nTiny animals scurry and scamper about<br \/>\nFinding nourishment, for which they scout.<br \/>\nFriends bring sustenance for your body and mind<br \/>\nYou return the gift in a similar kind.<br \/>\nNature and life have two comparable trials<br \/>\nIf you follow the path, it can take you miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land knows you, even when you are lost. Ignorance of the land comes at much too high a cost. When your feet leave the trodden path Follow the signs, or face its wrath. The wind blows with a slurry of tempo Through the trees,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54361,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54327\/revisions\/54361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}