{"id":88979,"date":"2021-06-26T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88979"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:13:15","slug":"coffee-change-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/coffee-change-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee &amp; change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer, we drink iced coffee<br \/>\nwhen it is still 90 degrees before dawn.<br \/>\nWe study the forecast and plan our day:<br \/>\nwalk the dogs by 5:30 a.m., complete errands early.<br \/>\nGet home safe.<\/p>\n<p>I worry constantly about the power grid.<br \/>\nIf it fails, do we survive 120 degrees with no AC?<br \/>\nAnd I obsess about drought<br \/>\nscorching native plants, silencing the birds.<br \/>\nWe are running out of water.<\/p>\n<p>The sun beats down on us and<br \/>\nmy eyes reflect the damage.<br \/>\nMy skin is brown and dry.<br \/>\nAll day I crave ice cream and<br \/>\nthe waves of the ocean.<br \/>\nAll day I remember<br \/>\ndeep forests and<br \/>\nwhat it felt like<br \/>\nto walk in the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer, we drink iced coffee when it is still 90 degrees before dawn. We study the forecast and plan our day: walk the dogs by 5:30 a.m., complete errands early. Get home safe. I worry constantly about the power grid. If it fails,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88979","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88979\/revisions\/88996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}