{"id":8185,"date":"2015-06-13T12:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T16:43:03","slug":"winter-orchid-424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/winter-orchid-424\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Orchid &#8211; 4\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My very teeth &#8211; all sweet<br \/>\nrelinquish morals to the craving<br \/>\nto bring spring<br \/>\nto know seasons<br \/>\nto hoist my weather-mouth<br \/>\nhigh above her,<br \/>\nperched perfect as a statue,<br \/>\nshe is.<\/p>\n<p>I am such an ardent gardener<br \/>\nI make the flowers bloom in winter,<br \/>\nand the curve of her smile to follow,<br \/>\nthe woman adores the orchids<br \/>\nshe wears on her body,<br \/>\nand daisies in her hair,<br \/>\nand roses on the countertop.<\/p>\n<p>the petals fall and collect,<br \/>\nevery daisy, rose&#8230; her orchids<br \/>\nI bloom them,<br \/>\nthey blossom for me only- like I am<br \/>\na ready bee<br \/>\ndancing pollen off my feet for her.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving the April showers,<br \/>\nto grow flowers in December,<br \/>\neach petal curved like<br \/>\nthe smile on her face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>@ angel rosen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My very teeth &#8211; all sweet relinquish morals to the craving to bring spring to know seasons to hoist my weather-mouth high above her, perched perfect as a statue, she is. I am such an ardent gardener I make the flowers bloom in winter, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}