{"id":62904,"date":"2020-06-27T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62904"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:33:16","slug":"gator-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/gator-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gator Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A metaphor for life<\/p>\n<p>This place<\/p>\n<p>Surface of tranquil beauty<\/p>\n<p>Manicured lawns,<\/p>\n<p>well pruned palms<\/p>\n<p>But lurking<br \/>\naround edges<br \/>\nunder brackish waters<\/p>\n<p>something else<\/p>\n<p>not nearly so benign<\/p>\n<p>submerged in shallow waters<\/p>\n<p>aware and alert<\/p>\n<p>as blind eyes<\/p>\n<p>fail to see<br \/>\nand<\/p>\n<p>carefree steps take you near<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A metaphor for life This place Surface of tranquil beauty Manicured lawns, well pruned palms But lurking around edges under brackish waters something else not nearly so benign submerged in shallow waters aware and alert as blind eyes fail to see and carefree steps take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62904","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\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63063,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62904\/revisions\/63063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}