{"id":87517,"date":"2021-06-26T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87517"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:38:30","slug":"visiting-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/visiting-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a pair of legs pegged beneath gunwales up ahead in the forest. You with your canoe-head where forward is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Did we bring the right things? Paddles, fishing-rods, and something to light the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Did we remember everything? Cans of deviled ham, musk oil, and rope.<\/p>\n<p>Was it a useful checklist or a collection doomed? Fuzzy-peach gummy candies and the worn out tarp that was &#8220;better than nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So the canoe sank heavy into the surface, tipping left and right, with our leans and dips, and our paddle strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling us, by hand, and arm, and bodily forward.<\/p>\n<p>Gliding, softly above the black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a pair of legs pegged beneath gunwales up ahead in the forest. You with your canoe-head where forward is easy. Did we bring the right things? Paddles, fishing-rods, and something to light the fire. Did we remember everything? Cans of deviled ham, musk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87517","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\/1593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87517"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99296,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87517\/revisions\/99296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}