{"id":93298,"date":"2021-06-26T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93298"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:00:56","slug":"ekphrastic-poem-the-last-leaf-at-myrtle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ekphrastic-poem-the-last-leaf-at-myrtle-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekphrastic poem The Last Leaf at Myrtle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93322\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191104_064709-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Last Leaf at Myrtle Beach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The last leaf at Myrtle Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Holding on for who knows what.<\/p>\n<p>His friends have all preceded him,<\/p>\n<p>alone in the sand he lies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is unattached with no<\/p>\n<p>commitments. Red with<\/p>\n<p>embarrassment about his<\/p>\n<p>predicament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for the last wave<\/p>\n<p>to carry him to his watery grave.<\/p>\n<p>He leaves a shadow in the sand,<\/p>\n<p>does the last leaf at Myrtle Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Leaf at Myrtle Beach &nbsp; The last leaf at Myrtle Beach. Holding on for who knows what. His friends have all preceded him, alone in the sand he lies. &nbsp; He is unattached with no commitments. Red with embarrassment about his predicament. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93298","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\/2886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93464,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93298\/revisions\/93464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}