{"id":56146,"date":"2019-06-23T03:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56146"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:37:12","slug":"hour-19-the-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hour-19-the-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 19 &#8211; The Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Return<br \/>\n(based on <em>Something Told the Wild Geese<\/em> by Rachel Field)<\/p>\n<p>Something told the wild geese<br \/>\nHomecoming time was nigh<br \/>\nThough the southern sun was warm<br \/>\nSomething whispered, \u201cFly!\u201d<br \/>\nThe gulf winds gently blew<br \/>\nThe grass was tender, young<br \/>\nBut though life was free and easy<br \/>\nSomething urged them, \u201cCome.\u201d<br \/>\nThe surf was rich and salty<br \/>\nWith shrimp declared the best<br \/>\nBut each wild heart quickened<br \/>\nAt thoughts of young and nest<br \/>\nSomething told the wild geese<br \/>\nHomecoming time was nigh<br \/>\nWinter\u2019s rest was over now<br \/>\nSo called the summer sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Return (based on Something Told the Wild Geese by Rachel Field) Something told the wild geese Homecoming time was nigh Though the southern sun was warm Something whispered, \u201cFly!\u201d The gulf winds gently blew The grass was tender, young But though life was free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56146","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56151,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56146\/revisions\/56151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}