{"id":56060,"date":"2019-06-23T03:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56060"},"modified":"2019-07-11T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T06:11:18","slug":"a-midsummer-days-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/a-midsummer-days-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Day&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reference to Morning by Billy Collins<\/p>\n<p>Why lay in bed in anticipation?<br \/>\nThe morning has nothing to offer<br \/>\nBut sweltering anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>The humidity is a sweaty sore<br \/>\nAnd the bugs, too many<\/p>\n<p>Get up, make your bed, and get going<br \/>\nPick out your brightest clothing<br \/>\n24 hours at your service<br \/>\nThey have much to offer<\/p>\n<p>The calm, breezy drive to the fields,<br \/>\nA soft, supple peach in hand \u2013<br \/>\nTo sustain your morning hunger<\/p>\n<p>A roadside magazine,<br \/>\nThe radio seducing you with jazzy hip hop,<br \/>\nA light wedge salad for lunch,<\/p>\n<p>And, a lonesome tree,<br \/>\nWrapping around the clouds to<br \/>\nProtect you from the sharps rays of the sun.<br \/>\nA pillowy nap dwells on your eyes<br \/>\nAnd you dream of me<br \/>\nAmongst the wildflowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference to Morning by Billy Collins Why lay in bed in anticipation? The morning has nothing to offer But sweltering anxiety. The humidity is a sweaty sore And the bugs, too many Get up, make your bed, and get going Pick out your brightest clothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"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-56060","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\/56060","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59416,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56060\/revisions\/59416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}