{"id":90519,"date":"2021-06-26T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90519"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T23:01:46","slug":"scarred-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scarred-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarred Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>POEM 04<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scorched, massive wooden bodies, tall, majestic like the Cedars of Lebanon. No match for fire though. Fed by the slightest breeze it comes red and filled with smoke<\/p>\n<p>Bulging like a mushroom cloud, a blazing tongue lapping up the distance, tearing through valleys with crimson destruction, crossing canyons and scaling hills and<\/p>\n<p>Mountains veiled in a gray and white fog that chokes the sight and breath of everything it approaches, sending wildlife,\u00a0 any life scurrying for cover.<\/p>\n<p>On some Sumatran highland or the like, it blazes through the planets oldest tropical forest. A lightening spark set dry brush smoldering; pleasant winds produced the<\/p>\n<p>flame and set the blaze that scorched the beauty and scarred the face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POEM 04 Scorched, massive wooden bodies, tall, majestic like the Cedars of Lebanon. No match for fire though. Fed by the slightest breeze it comes red and filled with smoke Bulging like a mushroom cloud, a blazing tongue lapping up the distance, tearing through valleys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90519","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104325,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90519\/revisions\/104325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}