{"id":57582,"date":"2019-06-23T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57582"},"modified":"2019-06-23T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T11:54:38","slug":"los-angeles-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/los-angeles-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was five, I loved to ride my skateboard<br \/>\nwhen I was six, it was my bike<br \/>\nwhen I was seven it was roller skates.<\/p>\n<p>I loved to mow yards and make money<br \/>\nMy friends and I used to put on plays<br \/>\nMy dad would hag blankets around the porch<br \/>\nand set up chairs in the yard<br \/>\nWe charged a nickel admission<br \/>\nand my mom made Kool-Aid and cookies<br \/>\nfor an intermission snack<\/p>\n<p>We had two olive trees in the front yard<br \/>\nI loved to climb them. My dad<br \/>\nhad to rescue me once.<\/p>\n<p>We had lemon and lime trees,<br \/>\norange trees and an avocado orchard behind us<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t ours, but I used to sneak over the wall<br \/>\nand get some.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the elderly man down the street<br \/>\nused to come pick our figs and bring me and my brother<br \/>\ncandy for letting him pick them.  I think his wife<br \/>\nmade fig preserves.<\/p>\n<p>We lived in Los Angeles a block away<br \/>\nfrom the Los Angeles River.<br \/>\nWe weren&#8217;t supposed to ride our bikes<br \/>\nin the river beds&#8230;but we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was five, I loved to ride my skateboard when I was six, it was my bike when I was seven it was roller skates. I loved to mow yards and make money My friends and I used to put on plays My dad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57582","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\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57652,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57582\/revisions\/57652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}