{"id":88604,"date":"2021-06-26T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88604"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:58:43","slug":"poem-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2: Spring Rite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spring Rite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blue<\/p>\n<p>skies, green-<\/p>\n<p>leafed trees near<\/p>\n<p>the playground. Pry<\/p>\n<p>glitter from the dirt,<\/p>\n<p>build a maypole of quartz<\/p>\n<p>shards made smooth by countless children\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>hands, most having known only play<\/p>\n<p>but not all. Some children\u2019s hands have touched<\/p>\n<p>what children should not be made to touch, some<\/p>\n<p>hands have turned into peaches from shame they will<\/p>\n<p>bear like the low-hanging fruit they became to some<\/p>\n<p>uncle or father, easy to reach for, too jelly-<\/p>\n<p>like to defend themselves. What do these children celebrate<\/p>\n<p>around the colorful maypole with their exuberant friends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Rite Blue skies, green- leafed trees near the playground. Pry glitter from the dirt, build a maypole of quartz shards made smooth by countless children\u2019s hands, most having known only play but not all. Some children\u2019s hands have touched what children should not be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88604","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\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90051,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88604\/revisions\/90051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}