{"id":63719,"date":"2020-06-27T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63719"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:10:50","slug":"and-the-gardener-likes-to-drink-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/and-the-gardener-likes-to-drink-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eves come no longer to pick up<br \/>\nSweetness of flowers and fruits<br \/>\nFondness of streams and dreams<br \/>\nScent of forest is long gone<br \/>\nMaddening patches of soil in turmoil<br \/>\nHomes and domes are razed<\/p>\n<p>And the gardener likes to drink tea<\/p>\n<p>Rabit and tortoise stopped racing<br \/>\nJokes enlive Elephant and ant<br \/>\nPeacocks have no plumes to gift<br \/>\nAs ladders replace snakes in pits<br \/>\nHead bows to new concrete god<br \/>\nSmoked out lungs crying insane<br \/>\nRun for currency surpasses all<br \/>\nSelfish minds corroding the earth<\/p>\n<p>And the gardener likes to drink tea<\/p>\n<p>Wood will revive the dense<br \/>\nWater will wash the roots<br \/>\nWind will gather the souls<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s own a forest like we own a car<br \/>\nFlowers will bloom again<br \/>\nEves will return home<\/p>\n<p>And the gardener likes to drink tea<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"atwho-inserted\" data-atwho-at-query=\"@va\">@varenyas<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Gardener Likes to Drink Tea Eves come no longer to pick up Sweetness of flowers and fruits Fondness of streams and dreams Scent of forest is long gone Maddening patches of soil in turmoil Homes and domes are razed And the gardener likes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719","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\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65272,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63719\/revisions\/65272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}