{"id":68805,"date":"2020-06-27T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68805"},"modified":"2020-07-25T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:06:06","slug":"pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/pity\/","title":{"rendered":"PITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITY<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The heat of midday faded<\/p>\n<p>as the brilliant summer sun<\/p>\n<p>settled below the tree line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strange seemed the firefly<\/p>\n<p>who earlier zoomed about the cottage<\/p>\n<p>now looking lethargic and spent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Had he succumbed from the heat of the day<\/p>\n<p>or did he drink too much of the sweet nectar<\/p>\n<p>thick like porridge, placed about in bottles<\/p>\n<p>for our visiting hummingbirds?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Masked in his gluttony<\/p>\n<p>his attempt to entertain us with dance and flight<\/p>\n<p>landed him in the campfire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITY &nbsp; The heat of midday faded as the brilliant summer sun settled below the tree line. &nbsp; Strange seemed the firefly who earlier zoomed about the cottage now looking lethargic and spent. &nbsp; Had he succumbed from the heat of the day or did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805","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\/1220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68805\/revisions\/79415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}