{"id":91306,"date":"2021-06-26T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91306"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:34:10","slug":"buried-in-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/buried-in-the-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried in the Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My garden is a time capsule,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s contents a catalog<br \/>\nof my successes and my mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>In the corners and along the edges,<br \/>\nirises, cannas, and lilies bloom<br \/>\nwhen it&#8217;s their time.<br \/>\nMy small white rose bush,<br \/>\na gift from a secret pal,<br \/>\nblossoms all summer long.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a history of my education&#8211;<br \/>\nof hyssop that pleases the bees,<br \/>\nthe weeds I leave in spring<br \/>\nbecause the butterflies like them,<br \/>\nthe goji berry plant, confined to a pot,<br \/>\nthe blackberry bed,<br \/>\nthe run amok strawberries,<br \/>\nand the things I shouldn&#8217;t have planted,<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t have planted, if only I&#8217;d known<br \/>\nwhat great bullies they were,<br \/>\npushing out all the other plants,<br \/>\nstaking their claim<br \/>\nwith some type of herbal manifest destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Each year I work to keep lemon balm<br \/>\nand tuberous-rooted sunflowers in check,<br \/>\nto make sure the annual flowers<br \/>\nand vegetables have room to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, I&#8217;m surprised again<br \/>\nwhen the time capsule opens up<br \/>\nand reminds me again<br \/>\nhow much I have to learn,<br \/>\nand how nature always wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My garden is a time capsule, it&#8217;s contents a catalog of my successes and my mistakes. In the corners and along the edges, irises, cannas, and lilies bloom when it&#8217;s their time. My small white rose bush, a gift from a secret pal, blossoms all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91494,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91306\/revisions\/91494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}