{"id":57428,"date":"2019-06-23T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57428"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:21:14","slug":"days-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/days-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>As a young child in the mountains<br \/>\nThe snow was falling at night<br \/>\nOne night my father woke me up<br \/>\nTo see a glorious sight.<br \/>\nA majestic, white snow owl<br \/>\nWas resting on the well<br \/>\nWe watched it for awhile<br \/>\nUntil it flew off and broke the spell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2. Later in my childhood<br \/>\nAlabama we chose to call home.<br \/>\nInstead of snow we had sand<br \/>\nAnd wildlife liked to roam.<br \/>\nOne day while I was out playing<br \/>\nMy mother suddenly called to me<br \/>\nShe had seen a red fox nearby<br \/>\nShe thought it would eat me up with glee.<\/p>\n<p>3. I grew a little older<br \/>\nTo the beach I would go<br \/>\nI\u2019d always end up sunburned<br \/>\nLathered up with aloe.<br \/>\nMy friends and I would walk around<br \/>\nTrying to be so cool<br \/>\nWhen in reality we were burning up<br \/>\nWould have to jump into the pool.<\/p>\n<p>4. In my teenage years<br \/>\nI became awkward, very shy<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t even walk past folks<br \/>\nAnd look them in the eye.<br \/>\nI fumbled through the classrooms<br \/>\nI marched with the band<br \/>\nI finally graduated<br \/>\nWas sent out into the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young child in the mountains The snow was falling at night One night my father woke me up To see a glorious sight. A majestic, white snow owl Was resting on the well We watched it for awhile Until it flew off and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57448,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428\/revisions\/57448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}