{"id":70919,"date":"2020-06-27T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70919"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:55:42","slug":"hour-12prompt-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-12prompt-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12: Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cIt came as a great surprise to me.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cI had no objections.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt came as a great surprise to me.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Surprise<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It came as a great surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the flower on the tree.<\/p>\n<p>The tree was normally not one to have<\/p>\n<p>Flowers, what a mystery!<\/p>\n<p>It came as a great surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>When I heard a bird call with glee<\/p>\n<p>From the tree that held the flower, sure<\/p>\n<p>With laughter I began to search some more.<\/p>\n<p>It came as a great surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>When I heard the buzzing of a bee<\/p>\n<p>In the depths of the foliage, loud it cried<\/p>\n<p>I looked even closer and then I spied.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the great surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>When I spent some time so carefree<\/p>\n<p>Searching the shrub and lo I beheld<\/p>\n<p>A child hiding within, and I yelled!<\/p>\n<p>It came as a great surprise to me<\/p>\n<p>To find the child hidden craftily<\/p>\n<p>He held out a flower, and softly whirred<\/p>\n<p>And then whistled like a bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Calls the Heart by Janette Oke \u201cIt came as a great surprise to me.\u201d \u201cI had no objections.\u201d \u201cIt came as a great surprise to me.\u201d &nbsp; Surprise It came as a great surprise to me When I saw the flower on the tree&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70919\/revisions\/77572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}