{"id":91517,"date":"2021-06-26T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91517"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:53:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:53:05","slug":"see-how-my-garden-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/see-how-my-garden-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"See how my garden grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dirt is destroyed from swaying years of care and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>A layer of new sod with that green wire that doesn&#8217;t biodegrade<\/p>\n<p>followed by no watering, no tending, no rinsing. Dust. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>But I dig down. First with the tiny shovel. Then the big one.<\/p>\n<p>Then I pickaxe through the layers of my backyard Napolean,<\/p>\n<p>Reading the stories of the owner&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>One tried roses.<\/p>\n<p>One loved jacaranda trees.<\/p>\n<p>One settled for ficuses.<\/p>\n<p>Still I dig, to add to the tale \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Below the petunia,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll plant the bones of my husband.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dirt is destroyed from swaying years of care and neglect. A layer of new sod with that green wire that doesn&#8217;t biodegrade followed by no watering, no tending, no rinsing. Dust. Repeat. But I dig down. First with the tiny shovel. Then the big&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517","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\/1550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91735,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91517\/revisions\/91735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}