{"id":75311,"date":"2020-06-28T05:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75311"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:59:51","slug":"sunrise-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/sunrise-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the lake between the mountains<br \/>\nAt 5 in the morning in the Fall<br \/>\nYou will see Little Tommy and his dog<br \/>\nReadying their wooden boat<\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy wears a red scarf<br \/>\nAnd yellow beanie with a hole<br \/>\nHis brown jacket is faded thin<br \/>\nHis necklace holds his mamma\u2019s soul<\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy is quiet<br \/>\nYou can greet him but he\u2019ll just smile<br \/>\nSome days if you look closely enough<br \/>\nYou can see some tears behind his eyes<\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy sits in his boat<br \/>\nWaiting for the sun to arrive<br \/>\nHe wields his powers of serene silence<br \/>\nAnd brings calm after a chaotic night <\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy hums a song<br \/>\nSo quietly even he strains to hear it<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s the song he sings every morning<br \/>\nAlong with the cold wind that blows<\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy does not have much<br \/>\nBut he never fails to show up<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the little things that count, his t-shirt says<br \/>\nIt looks like he painted it himself<\/p>\n<p>Little Tommy paddles back to shore<br \/>\nGently smiles at you again<br \/>\nAnd you wonder at what humanity is<br \/>\nWhen you think of him again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you go to the lake between the mountains At 5 in the morning in the Fall You will see Little Tommy and his dog Readying their wooden boat Little Tommy wears a red scarf And yellow beanie with a hole His brown jacket is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75395,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions\/75395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}