{"id":72260,"date":"2020-06-27T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72260"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T23:10:02","slug":"plant-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/plant-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started with a fire<br \/>\nBlazing hot brutal devastating<br \/>\nhowling winds with forked tongues<br \/>\nlicked flames<br \/>\nkicking them higher<br \/>\nmelting metal shattering glass<br \/>\nobliterating concrete<br \/>\nhuman screams lost in raging infernos<br \/>\ncrawling across the planet<br \/>\nall was charred all was scarred<br \/>\na wasteland<\/p>\n<p>Time passed<\/p>\n<p>It started with the seeds<br \/>\ntiny sprouts pushing through<br \/>\ndeep dark well rested soil<br \/>\nstronger than before<br \/>\nspreading leaves extending branches<br \/>\nsmiling at the sun<br \/>\nshowering in the cooling rains<br \/>\nbirds chirping bees buzzing<br \/>\nvisiting newly blossomed flowers<br \/>\nsucking nectar spreading pollen<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature hummed and mused<br \/>\nIt was time to bring them back<br \/>\nthe flora and the fauna<br \/>\nall except the humans<br \/>\nthere was no longer any place for them<br \/>\nin Paradise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with a fire Blazing hot brutal devastating howling winds with forked tongues licked flames kicking them higher melting metal shattering glass obliterating concrete human screams lost in raging infernos crawling across the planet all was charred all was scarred a wasteland Time passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[3442,210],"class_list":["post-72260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-hour-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72260"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79447,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions\/79447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}