{"id":67410,"date":"2020-06-27T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67410"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:39:21","slug":"season-of-the-arribada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-the-arribada\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of the Arribada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Italian sonnet form&#8211;I think)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By Sandy Lender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A multitude came crawling up the sandy shore<\/p>\n<p>Only moonlight off\u2019ring light by which to nest<\/p>\n<p>A thousand sets of flapping flippers sought what ground is best<\/p>\n<p>Mighty turtles one by one raked the ground and tore<\/p>\n<p>Digging, ripping, cavities for their eggs to store<\/p>\n<p>And burying again with solid sand their eggs to rest<\/p>\n<p>Left by moonlight, taking up again their ancient quest<\/p>\n<p>The multitude slipped back to Mother Ocean evermore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For such a great arribada<\/p>\n<p>We pray a season of success<\/p>\n<p>Forgive our lack of sentience<\/p>\n<p>For their lovely sonata,<\/p>\n<p>No other redress<\/p>\n<p>Have we but penitence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Italian sonnet form&#8211;I think) By Sandy Lender &nbsp; A multitude came crawling up the sandy shore Only moonlight off\u2019ring light by which to nest A thousand sets of flapping flippers sought what ground is best Mighty turtles one by one raked the ground and tore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68254,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions\/68254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}