{"id":88146,"date":"2021-06-26T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88146"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:38:03","slug":"fenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/fenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quiet.<br \/>\nA whispering.<br \/>\nMoonlight makes ghosts of the reeds.<br \/>\nMosquitos brush their toes against the surface<br \/>\nOf blood-dark water where<br \/>\nAn eel chases shadows through the roots of ancient trees.<br \/>\nAnd a million tiny things are alive.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet.<br \/>\nOr\u2026 not.<br \/>\nQuiet but for the noises<br \/>\nOf the pumps as they rip apart the soil<br \/>\nAnd drainage channels scar<br \/>\nThe broken land. And the ancient trees have lost their voices.<br \/>\nAnd a million tiny things have died.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet.<br \/>\nNow, so quiet.<br \/>\nMoonlight finds ghosts where once were reeds.<br \/>\nIn dried-out carrs foxes carve their dens into<br \/>\nThe starless midnight earth.<br \/>\nThe blood has drained away &#8211; they said there was no human need.<br \/>\nAnd a million tiny things are ploughed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiet. A whispering. Moonlight makes ghosts of the reeds. Mosquitos brush their toes against the surface Of blood-dark water where An eel chases shadows through the roots of ancient trees. And a million tiny things are alive. Quiet. Or\u2026 not. Quiet but for the noises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104429,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88146\/revisions\/104429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}