{"id":69262,"date":"2020-06-27T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69262"},"modified":"2020-06-27T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T21:59:01","slug":"in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"In The South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In The South<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fireflies float up the treeline.<\/p>\n<p><em>But we call them lightning bugs here<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>They glimmer as they soar high, seeking<\/p>\n<p>the final warmth of the setting sun<\/p>\n<p>or escaping the heat we\u2019re making<\/p>\n<p>beneath my pick-up\u2019s tarp and brightness<\/p>\n<p>of the stadium parking lot lights.<\/p>\n<p>We watch them rise, little stars<\/p>\n<p>in our small town lives, the only zooming<\/p>\n<p>we see around here. <em>Well, besides the cars<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>racing around mountain roads, wheels<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>picking up dust, our hair eating wind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As they go to the sky, we wonder<\/p>\n<p>what it\u2019d be like to be them: light,<\/p>\n<p>carefree, not afraid to reach new heights,<\/p>\n<p>to kiss the sun or die trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The South &nbsp; The fireflies float up the treeline. But we call them lightning bugs here. They glimmer as they soar high, seeking the final warmth of the setting sun or escaping the heat we\u2019re making beneath my pick-up\u2019s tarp and brightness of the&#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-69262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262","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=69262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69268,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262\/revisions\/69268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}