{"id":68649,"date":"2020-06-27T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68649"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:10:26","slug":"the-pandemic-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-pandemic-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cottage hid behind the treeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A firefly circled my bottle of Stella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was good to breathe without the mask.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was good to escape the heat and strange faces of the desert city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The lethargy of summer in my knees,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The zoom from the cars zipping down the freeway fading with the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The curry porridge was bubbling in the slow cooker,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The kids won\u2019t eat it. That\u2019s ok. I will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am only hungry at night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hour 9, Prompt 9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cottage hid behind the treeline. A firefly circled my bottle of Stella. &nbsp; It was good to breathe without the mask. It was good to escape the heat and strange faces of the desert city. &nbsp; The lethargy of summer in my knees, The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2956,156,734,736],"class_list":["post-68649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-prompt9","tag-hour-9","tag-hour-9-prompt","tag-prompt-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68662,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649\/revisions\/68662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}