{"id":65905,"date":"2020-06-27T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65905"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:56:48","slug":"hour-5-before-winter-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-5-before-winter-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5: Before Winter Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Red and Brother Bear, please slow down.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re too fast for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quiet, child, says Sister Red. We have much to do<\/p>\n<p>Before winter comes.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves are changing. The trees are bare.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the sunlight won\u2019t even care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sister Red and Brother, please slow down. I can\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hurry along, says Brother Bear. We have much to do<\/p>\n<p>Before winter comes.<\/p>\n<p>The berries are gone. The creek has dried.<\/p>\n<p>We have miles to go to reach wayside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sister Red and Brother Bear, please slow down. I can\u2019t see you.<\/p>\n<p>The leaves changed, and the creek has dried.<\/p>\n<p>Winter has come, and the sunlight doesn\u2019t even care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sister Red and Brother Bear, don\u2019t slow down.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll meet you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Red and Brother Bear, please slow down. You\u2019re too fast for me. &nbsp; Quiet, child, says Sister Red. We have much to do Before winter comes. The leaves are changing. The trees are bare. Soon the sunlight won\u2019t even care. &nbsp; Sister Red and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65905","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65928,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65905\/revisions\/65928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}