{"id":7746,"date":"2015-06-13T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:45:33","slug":"2015-poetry-marathon-poem-3-spawning-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/2015-poetry-marathon-poem-3-spawning-season\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 poetry marathon poem #3 spawning season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It\u2019s spawning season<\/i><br \/>\nYou baited your hook carefully<br \/>\n<em>They come into the shallows to spawn<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What about the mommy fishes?<\/em><br \/>\nI worried<br \/>\n<em>You won\u2019t be catching mommy fishes<\/em><br \/>\n<em>will you?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>No mommy fishes<\/em>, you reassured me<\/p>\n<p>Even as you cut<br \/>\ninto the glistening bellies<br \/>\nscraping the crystalline beads<br \/>\nof life into the water below<br \/>\nEven as you laughed at me<\/p>\n<p>Even then, only weeks<br \/>\ninto what would become <i>love<br \/>\nmarriage separation love again<br \/>\ntwo sons and a life together<\/i><br \/>\nyou protected me<br \/>\nfiltered my reality<br \/>\nthrough the lens<br \/>\nof your affection<br \/>\nTraded reality<br \/>\nfor what might comfort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s spawning season You baited your hook carefully They come into the shallows to spawn What about the mommy fishes? I worried You won\u2019t be catching mommy fishes will you? No mommy fishes, you reassured me Even as you cut into the glistening bellies scraping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}