{"id":55556,"date":"2019-06-23T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55556"},"modified":"2019-06-23T20:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:55:57","slug":"flower-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/flower-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>may i never blink when she\u2019s here for the season<br \/>\nmy flower girl blooms and i lose touch with all reason<br \/>\ni endure december rain and the dreaded january blues<br \/>\njust to see you again babe, you and all your hues<br \/>\nsuffocate me with your petals i think i\u2019ll be okay<br \/>\nyou be the predator i\u2019ll be the prey<br \/>\nyour scent hangs like loose threads all pull and no push<br \/>\ni pluck it and your fragrance demands me to hush<br \/>\ni\u2019m in your web of color<br \/>\nsoothing<br \/>\npoison ivy<br \/>\nkill me with a kiss<br \/>\nbut won\u2019t you do it nicely<br \/>\ni\u2019m fine ebbing in the springtime<br \/>\nas i know this is where you flow<br \/>\ni\u2019ll lay in the garden bed with you forever<br \/>\nfeeling the wind above us blow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>may i never blink when she\u2019s here for the season my flower girl blooms and i lose touch with all reason i endure december rain and the dreaded january blues just to see you again babe, you and all your hues suffocate me with your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55556","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58289,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55556\/revisions\/58289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}