{"id":7292,"date":"2015-06-13T10:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:40:18","slug":"hour-2-ablution-of-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-2-ablution-of-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2: Ablution of Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky, a single cloud unsundered<\/p>\n<p>Casts desire over leafy crowns<\/p>\n<p>Which grace the head of Mother\u2019s matrons<\/p>\n<p>And gild the brows of Gaea\u2019s patrons<\/p>\n<p>A longing to undress<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their summer clothes so lately lush<\/p>\n<p>Grow itchy \u2018gainst their knotty skins<\/p>\n<p>To alleviate the inflammation<\/p>\n<p>A wondrous curse of transformation<\/p>\n<p>Leaves modesty forgot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ornaments once cherished so<\/p>\n<p>First grow jaundiced, then<\/p>\n<p>Burning with a fever fall<\/p>\n<p>Shedding \u2018til they\u2019re naked all<\/p>\n<p>No longer vain and proud<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The metamorphosis complete<\/p>\n<p>They feel the bite of frigid air<\/p>\n<p>Huddling together bare<\/p>\n<p>And balling fists of woody digits at<\/p>\n<p>The sky, a single cloud unsundered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky, a single cloud unsundered Casts desire over leafy crowns Which grace the head of Mother\u2019s matrons And gild the brows of Gaea\u2019s patrons A longing to undress &nbsp; Their summer clothes so lately lush Grow itchy \u2018gainst their knotty skins To alleviate the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","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\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}