{"id":61865,"date":"2020-06-27T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61865"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:25:43","slug":"poem-2-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-2-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the ground in a field buried deep<br \/>\nI came to the body of the lady<\/p>\n<p>She took breath no more and her eyes to ash<br \/>\nMy first thought to mount up and ride away<br \/>\nMy second &#8211; bury her proper neath the tree<br \/>\nMy last &#8211; the one that stuck &#8211; take her with me.<\/p>\n<p>If I left her naked body a shame<br \/>\nMy soul would howl at me in quiet nights.<\/p>\n<p>To bury her would hide her name forever<br \/>\nNo grieving mother ever to know now<br \/>\nHow her smiling daughter then fed the worms<br \/>\nSquirming through the soil dark and deep down.<\/p>\n<p>So I laid the body I found lifeless<br \/>\nIn my cart and urged my mule on to town.<\/p>\n<p>This body now no beat or breath inside<br \/>\nBut I insist that its story be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the ground in a field buried deep I came to the body of the lady She took breath no more and her eyes to ash My first thought to mount up and ride away My second &#8211; bury her proper neath the tree My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61865","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62948,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61865\/revisions\/62948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}