{"id":95334,"date":"2021-06-26T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95334"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:15:05","slug":"christmas-snow-hour-10-half-marathon-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/christmas-snow-hour-10-half-marathon-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Snow  (Hour 10 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Snow<\/p>\n<p>(Hour 10 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021)<\/p>\n<p>I have wandered among the snowflakes<br \/>\nWondering what it is about the end of December<br \/>\nThat everyone loves snow<br \/>\nI live in a city<br \/>\nAnd snow becomes<br \/>\nDirty and slippery<br \/>\nOn the sidewalks and streets<br \/>\nWe cannot ski<br \/>\nWe cannot skate<br \/>\nWe do not enjoy the cold snow takes<br \/>\nI know there are movies<br \/>\nAnd tv shows<br \/>\nAnd songs about Christmas snow<br \/>\nPeople actually dream of snow<br \/>\nBut the original movie<br \/>\nWith the song<br \/>\nTook place in a ski resort<br \/>\nWhere snow made sense<br \/>\nFor those who spent their vacation<br \/>\nWanting to ski there.<\/p>\n<p>I know that wishing for snow is not the same<br \/>\nAs making it happen<br \/>\nSki resorts these days can make artificial snow.<br \/>\nBut we in the City must spend money removing it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t call me scrooge<br \/>\nI enjoy exchanging gifts<br \/>\nHaving a nice meal with family<br \/>\nAnd all other Christmasy things<br \/>\nAs much as the next guy.<br \/>\nI hate the cold and I hate snow.<br \/>\nAnd I don\u2019t dream of snow unless it is a nightmare<br \/>\nAnd the snow causes me to crash my car<br \/>\nOr fall and break a leg or wrist.<br \/>\nMy gift to G-d is a prayer for peace,<br \/>\nAnd as a return gift,<br \/>\nI would appreciate a season without snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Snow (Hour 10 &#8211; Half Marathon 2021) I have wandered among the snowflakes Wondering what it is about the end of December That everyone loves snow I live in a city And snow becomes Dirty and slippery On the sidewalks and streets We cannot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95334","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95344,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95334\/revisions\/95344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}