{"id":9024,"date":"2015-06-13T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:53:28","slug":"9024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/9024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-on-red-flower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9042\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-on-red-flower-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"butterfly on red flower\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-on-red-flower-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-on-red-flower-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/butterfly-on-red-flower-1200x816.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brilliance of the butterfly is<\/p>\n<p>headed for destruction<\/p>\n<p>as humans kill the things we<\/p>\n<p>cannot spend or make<\/p>\n<p>space for in our ample schemes<\/p>\n<p>of prosperity and wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I shall not write a lyric about bright<\/p>\n<p>Lepidoptera or variety of<\/p>\n<p>bugs, hold back from imparting gilded<\/p>\n<p>Remarks on ecological conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I am grateful I have known and seen<\/p>\n<p>rare melodic inspiration from<\/p>\n<p>episodes god sends me, beloved hymns<\/p>\n<p>sung by flying, floating imps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brilliance of the butterfly is headed for destruction as humans kill the things we cannot spend or make space for in our ample schemes of prosperity and wealth. I shall not write a lyric about bright Lepidoptera or variety of bugs, hold back from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}