{"id":66805,"date":"2020-06-27T14:59:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66805"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:59:20","slug":"the-hiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-hiker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hiker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hiker<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the sun gleams against the mountains, the birds begin to glow,<\/p>\n<p>singing sons of innocence. Squirrels frolic in the heat,<\/p>\n<p>toppling on one another, dancing to their own beat. A row<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of ants climb up, up, up, trading coarseness of bark for coolness (the chill)<\/p>\n<p>of fresh morning leaves. Dew dries away, fog begins to form,<\/p>\n<p>the sun creates a whole new world, ready to explore. Warm<\/p>\n<p>air rises fast from heavy lungs as the hiker climbs the hill,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he looks to the tress and smiles. <em>A brand new day, a fresh start.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He removes his jacket and his bag, places them on the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>He watches the sun rise in the sky, dangle above the trees,<\/p>\n<p>knowing it will only last moments before having to part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hiker &nbsp; When the sun gleams against the mountains, the birds begin to glow, singing sons of innocence. Squirrels frolic in the heat, toppling on one another, dancing to their own beat. A row &nbsp; of ants climb up, up, up, trading coarseness of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66805","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66812,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66805\/revisions\/66812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}