{"id":66064,"date":"2020-06-27T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66064"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:51:44","slug":"the-best-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-best-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning sun. A perfectly fried farm-fresh egg.<\/p>\n<p>Toast with home-made raspberry jam. Hands in<\/p>\n<p>garden dirt. Pinching back petunias. Transplanting<\/p>\n<p>beets. Feet moving along park path. Sound shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Dog sniffing critter trails. Sound of tumbling falls.<\/p>\n<p>Tuna sandwich with garden lettuce. Potato chips.<\/p>\n<p>Paddleboards careening along smooth water, sun<\/p>\n<p>warmed skin. Cold water dip.\u00a0 Back home: glass<\/p>\n<p>of Cabernet Sauvignon on the deck. Roasted<\/p>\n<p>vegetables. Nutty rice. Dance party: Swing Town,<\/p>\n<p>Willy Nelson&#8211;cowboy two-step, East coast swing.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh sheets dried on the line. Summer-scented skin.<\/p>\n<p>Tender\u00a0touch. Sleep like the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning sun. A perfectly fried farm-fresh egg. Toast with home-made raspberry jam. Hands in garden dirt. Pinching back petunias. Transplanting beets. Feet moving along park path. Sound shoes. Dog sniffing critter trails. Sound of tumbling falls. Tuna sandwich with garden lettuce. Potato chips. Paddleboards careening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3687],"class_list":["post-66064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poetry202halfmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66064","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66345,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66064\/revisions\/66345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}