{"id":89471,"date":"2021-06-26T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89471"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:55:04","slug":"summer-of-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/summer-of-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember searingly<br \/>\nwhen I need to and<br \/>\nwhen I don\u2019t<br \/>\ndays of youthful summers<br \/>\ngrandparent\u2019s lake home<br \/>\nwoodlands of<br \/>\nnorthern Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>Only child<br \/>\nonly grandchild<br \/>\ngiven free rein to roam<br \/>\nexplore<br \/>\ndiscover<br \/>\nunderstand<br \/>\nall on my own terms<\/p>\n<p>I remember searingly<br \/>\nwhen I need to and<br \/>\nwhen I don\u2019t<br \/>\nsitting on their dock<br \/>\nwatching<br \/>\nthe lake<br \/>\nthe birds, fish<br \/>\nother people<br \/>\nself-taught in the fine art<br \/>\nmeditating<br \/>\nthough at the time I<br \/>\nthought it just<br \/>\nbeing lazy<\/p>\n<p>I remember searingly<br \/>\nwhen I need to and<br \/>\nwhen I don\u2019t<br \/>\nsights<br \/>\nsounds, smells<br \/>\nbirds by their calls<br \/>\ntrees by their barks<br \/>\npaths by how I had<br \/>\nwalked them<\/p>\n<p>I remember searingly<br \/>\nwhen I need to and<br \/>\nthere is rarely a time<br \/>\nwhen I don\u2019t <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember searingly when I need to and when I don\u2019t days of youthful summers grandparent\u2019s lake home woodlands of northern Minnesota Only child only grandchild given free rein to roam explore discover understand all on my own terms I remember searingly when I need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4210,4209,17,4212,4211,2070],"class_list":["post-89471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour3","tag-2021prompt3","tag-nature","tag-the-lake","tag-the-woods","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89997,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions\/89997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}