{"id":72188,"date":"2020-06-27T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72188"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:12:27","slug":"small-town-summer-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/small-town-summer-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Summer Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Small Town Summer Evening<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Small town summer evening,<\/p>\n<p>Life on the wraparound porch<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for a cool breeze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Line of rockers facing the street<\/p>\n<p>Cooking done for the day<\/p>\n<p>Girls finishing up the dishes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting hard with a sigh<\/p>\n<p>Wiping hands on already damp apron<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watching kids circling the barn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors stop by to chat<\/p>\n<p>Chairs dragged out from the kitchen<\/p>\n<p>Fanning themselves, while telling stories<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watching couples stroll by the river<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the laughter of children<\/p>\n<p>Lone notes from Herman\u2019s saxophone<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dusk is falling over the river<\/p>\n<p>Kids filter back to sit on the steps<\/p>\n<p>Talking about everything and nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Bette Low<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>2020 Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Town Summer Evening &nbsp; Small town summer evening, Life on the wraparound porch Waiting for a cool breeze. &nbsp; Line of rockers facing the street Cooking done for the day Girls finishing up the dishes &nbsp; Sitting hard with a sigh Wiping hands on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72188","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\/1437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72205,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72188\/revisions\/72205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}