{"id":67056,"date":"2020-06-27T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67056"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:57:23","slug":"season-of-the-lost-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-lost-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Lost Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 13<sup>th<\/sup>, was definitely bewitched<\/p>\n<p>and not only for the nefarious connections tied to the number.<\/p>\n<p>It was the last day of school of the 2019-20 school year,<\/p>\n<p>though the students, teachers, and staff didn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n<p>The Covid-19 outbreak brought forth a pandemic<\/p>\n<p>with the only option to effectively slow the spread<\/p>\n<p>being to maintain Social Distancing of a minimum six feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teachers held online learning sessions with their students,<\/p>\n<p>But those went the way of the Dodo bird.<\/p>\n<p>The students fluttered away as the work was deemed optional.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix, boardgames, and puzzles can only fill so many days.<\/p>\n<p>Houses transform and gardens flourish.<\/p>\n<p>Long walks under the sun slowly battle the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The introverts rejoice and the extroverts suffer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Toilet paper, paper products, and hand sanitizer soon vanish.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, summer plans fizzle like a dying propane tank.<\/p>\n<p>Vacations disappear, and despair sets in.<\/p>\n<p>Beach goers blow away like sand from the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational vehicles sit idle, while flights are jettisoned.<\/p>\n<p>Summer sport\u2019s leagues and camps cancel any hope of parental rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate gut punch occurs when grandparents cannot be utilized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The much-needed respite which refuels all teachers<\/p>\n<p>rolls by as a tumbleweed tumbles along the dusty plains.<\/p>\n<p>My deck is now my refuge. The dog is now my best friend.<\/p>\n<p>The stack of tomes my only hope of passing the time.<\/p>\n<p>My motivation is sucked dry as the protective clouds evaporate.<\/p>\n<p>The summer morphs in to one long fitful nap.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this pandemic is ever going to end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 13th, was definitely bewitched and not only for the nefarious connections tied to the number. It was the last day of school of the 2019-20 school year, though the students, teachers, and staff didn\u2019t know it. The Covid-19 outbreak brought forth a pandemic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67056","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67589,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67056\/revisions\/67589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}