{"id":56964,"date":"2019-06-23T06:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56964"},"modified":"2019-06-23T06:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:07:37","slug":"ventura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ventura\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The air is still not right.<\/p>\n<p>Grass on the hills peak out slowly, then <em>boom.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or should I say, bloom?<\/p>\n<p>Fire renews.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains uncover.<\/p>\n<p>Crispy foundation, a ghost of a house lost.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the scent of fire sends me into a nervous frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke and embers make me nauseous.<\/p>\n<p>Memories of driving into the chaos to rescue animals.<\/p>\n<p>Picking up friends whose homes they will never see again.<\/p>\n<p>Spending hours, days even, sorting through donations.<\/p>\n<p>But the hills are green.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is out.<\/p>\n<p>A man named Thomas will never hurt us again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air is still not right. Grass on the hills peak out slowly, then boom.\u00a0 Or should I say, bloom? Fire renews. Heavy rains uncover. Crispy foundation, a ghost of a house lost. Still, the scent of fire sends me into a nervous frenzy. Smoke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964","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\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56997,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56964\/revisions\/56997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}