{"id":65663,"date":"2020-06-27T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65663"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:09:03","slug":"heal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/heal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young I was quite the adventurous bundle<br \/>\nWith wide eyes and chubby legs made to trundle<\/p>\n<p>They took me many places<\/p>\n<p>Into the sagebrush forest<br \/>\nAcross cacti fields<br \/>\nTo the umbrella tree<\/p>\n<p>These were sacred spaces<\/p>\n<p>I followed imprints in the sand<br \/>\nHowls on the wind<\/p>\n<p>Some days<br \/>\nThe sagebrush cut my arms<br \/>\nThe cacti left spines in my feet<br \/>\nThe trees did not shade me from the heat <\/p>\n<p>When I could not keep up<br \/>\nI would return home<br \/>\nTears in my brown eyes<\/p>\n<p>My father would hear my cries<br \/>\nBandage my cuts<br \/>\nRemove the cacti from my soles<br \/>\nAnd soothe aloe on my burns<br \/>\nHe told me I would never be left behind<\/p>\n<p>My father always had a solution<br \/>\nand wrapped in clouds of gauze<br \/>\nwords of affirmation<br \/>\nand tender love<br \/>\nI never scarred <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was young I was quite the adventurous bundle With wide eyes and chubby legs made to trundle They took me many places Into the sagebrush forest Across cacti fields To the umbrella tree These were sacred spaces I followed imprints in the sand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663","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\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66111,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions\/66111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}