{"id":65520,"date":"2020-06-27T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65520"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:42:32","slug":"hour-5-prompt-5-a-though-whilst-laying-in-a-grove-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-5-prompt-5-a-though-whilst-laying-in-a-grove-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5; Prompt 5: A Thought Whilst Laying in A Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder sometimes<br \/>\nWhat it must feel like to be a leaf<br \/>\nSlowly falling<br \/>\nAimed toward the earth<br \/>\nAnticipating the sudden stop<br \/>\nUpon the ground<br \/>\nI am destined to one day be under<\/p>\n<p>What must it be like<br \/>\nTo one day be high up<br \/>\nClose enough to taste the sun<br \/>\nClose enough to smell the clouds<br \/>\nClose enough to hear the stars<br \/>\nClose enough to glimpse&#8230;God?<\/p>\n<p>Just when you&#8217;ve begun to decipher<br \/>\nThe mystery of it<br \/>\nThe tree shudders<br \/>\nYour place in the heavens<br \/>\nTaken<br \/>\nBy time or some other faceless cruelty<\/p>\n<p>I shall no longer wonder of this<br \/>\nBecause it is a truth we face from birth<br \/>\nWe are all falling leaves<br \/>\nAnd despite our position in life<br \/>\nWe all land in the same ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder sometimes What it must feel like to be a leaf Slowly falling Aimed toward the earth Anticipating the sudden stop Upon the ground I am destined to one day be under What must it be like To one day be high up Close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65520","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65744,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65520\/revisions\/65744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}