{"id":75763,"date":"2020-06-28T06:56:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75763"},"modified":"2020-06-28T06:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:56:43","slug":"cotton-candy-land-hour-22-prompt-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/cotton-candy-land-hour-22-prompt-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton-Candy Land (hour 22, prompt 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Once upon a marshmallow morning<br \/>\nIn a cotton-candy land<br \/>\nChildren&#8217;s laughter everywhere<br \/>\nAs they did the candy dance<br \/>\nAround trees of chocolate kisses<br \/>\nAt the Skittles rainbow&#8217;s end<br \/>\nThey danced and sang so merrily<br \/>\nAnd held each other&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nWhile fairies dusted them with sugar<br \/>\nThat glittered in the sun<br \/>\nThey gathered &#8217;round on gumdrops<br \/>\nGiggling in their fun<br \/>\nOnce upon a marshmallow morning<br \/>\nIn a cotton-candy land<br \/>\nChildren laughed and children danced<br \/>\nBecause children understand.<br \/>\n~Mandy Kocsis\u00a92020~<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75451\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mountains-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a marshmallow morning In a cotton-candy land Children&#8217;s laughter everywhere As they did the candy dance Around trees of chocolate kisses At the Skittles rainbow&#8217;s end They danced and sang so merrily And held each other&#8217;s hands While fairies dusted them with sugar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3983,2707,3657,680,3458,3243],"class_list":["post-75763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-cottoncandyland","tag-hour22","tag-mandysland","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon2020","tag-prompt22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75763","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\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75785,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75763\/revisions\/75785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}