{"id":72229,"date":"2020-06-27T22:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72229"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:45:10","slug":"hour-14-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-14-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 14, *Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve dreamed the garden dream for so long,<br \/>\nsix infinite-feeling years in a desert town<br \/>\nhave finally ended, and dreams can root and grow.<\/p>\n<p>Connection to the earth began for me decades ago,<br \/>\na broken child seeking an anchoring tether<br \/>\nand finding it in the minuscule but richly complex<br \/>\nbackyard world of plants, earth, bugs, and birds.<\/p>\n<p>Healing began there, and finally finished in adult gardens,<br \/>\nat peace with my hands in the earth and sun on my back.<br \/>\nNow more than ever, as disease and warfare push<br \/>\nstress and strife in our faces, I long to make things grow.<\/p>\n<p>I will pass on that love and knowledge to my children,<br \/>\nsecure in the thought at the end of my days<br \/>\nthat they can feed themselves and generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>They will gather the future fruits of the labors we begin today,<br \/>\nand feel my love for them, growing and alive, all over again.<\/p>\n<p>* Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer&#8217;s quote: &#8220;This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden-so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve dreamed the garden dream for so long, six infinite-feeling years in a desert town have finally ended, and dreams can root and grow. Connection to the earth began for me decades ago, a broken child seeking an anchoring tether and finding it in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72371,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72229\/revisions\/72371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}