{"id":65356,"date":"2020-06-27T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65356"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:01:27","slug":"prompt-five-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-five-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem Hour Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Day it Rained Umbrellas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day the sky opened,<br \/>\nAnd poured down umbrellas.<br \/>\nNo rain in which to use them,<br \/>\nJust thousands of umbrellas.<br \/>\nDifferent colours, different sizes,<br \/>\nAll styles and shapes and shades.<\/p>\n<p>They hurdled down towards us,<br \/>\nHandles first, fully open,<br \/>\nBefore suddenly slowing<br \/>\nAnd letting a gentle breeze guide them down,<br \/>\nInto waiting hands, one per person,<br \/>\nChoosing their new owners one by one.<\/p>\n<p>People reached out and found<br \/>\nTheir favourite colour waiting,<br \/>\nOr an animal shape,<br \/>\nPatterns, stripes, spots,<br \/>\nHandles of wood or plastic or metal,<br \/>\nJust what they would have chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Small girls had pink umbrellas with unicorns on,<br \/>\nDisney princesses and kittens,<br \/>\nOr maybe a Star Wars figure,<br \/>\nSpace rockets or spiderwebs.<br \/>\nMen in suits reached for rainbow stripes,<br \/>\nWomen for bold red or rich purple.<\/p>\n<p>The day the umbrellas rained down,<br \/>\nMagically, mysteriously.<br \/>\nWe reached out and held on,<br \/>\nAs the day saw not a drop of rain<br \/>\nBut an outpouring of love<br \/>\nAnd understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day it Rained Umbrellas One day the sky opened, And poured down umbrellas. No rain in which to use them, Just thousands of umbrellas. Different colours, different sizes, All styles and shapes and shades. They hurdled down towards us, Handles first, fully open, Before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65356","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69303,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65356\/revisions\/69303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}