{"id":54533,"date":"2019-06-22T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T00:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54533"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:49:05","slug":"homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost myself along the way somewhere.<br \/>\nMost people around me didn\u2019t care.<br \/>\nOr maybe they didn\u2019t notice at all<br \/>\nthat I seemed headed for a fall. <\/p>\n<p>I took myself down to the water\u2019s edge.<br \/>\nImmersed in the depths of my regret.<br \/>\nAbsolved myself in the sun\u2019s warm glow.<br \/>\nAnd remembered all that I used to know: <\/p>\n<p>That my roots run deep<br \/>\nin my native land.<\/p>\n<p>That the earth will ground me<br \/>\ndespite shifting sands. <\/p>\n<p>That time well spent isn&#8217;t lost at all.<br \/>\nThat the rising is greater than the fall.<\/p>\n<p>That the home I sought<br \/>\nwas always close at hand. <\/p>\n<p>And that I&#8217;m welcomed and loved<br \/>\nin my true homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost myself along the way somewhere. Most people around me didn\u2019t care. Or maybe they didn\u2019t notice at all that I seemed headed for a fall. I took myself down to the water\u2019s edge. Immersed in the depths of my regret. Absolved myself in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58555,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54533\/revisions\/58555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}