{"id":96082,"date":"2021-06-26T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96082"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:12:43","slug":"poem-11-to-look-at-flowers-that-are-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-11-to-look-at-flowers-that-are-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 11: To Look at Flowers That Are Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To Look at Flowers That Are Blue,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and not pink or red, is one of the only ways<\/p>\n<p>to peer into sky\u2019s own eye. To breathe song<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>into lungs, skip the forecast and the night<\/p>\n<p>show, skip the fear of memory, and why not?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t pet the old man to death<\/p>\n<p>by thinking only of mercy and balm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on the answering machine, and<\/p>\n<p>if you do anyway, think about what the nurse told you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>about death: that\u2019s a long song he holds in his mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Look at Flowers That Are Blue, &nbsp; and not pink or red, is one of the only ways to peer into sky\u2019s own eye. To breathe song &nbsp; into lungs, skip the forecast and the night show, skip the fear of memory, and why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96082","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\/3235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96106,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96082\/revisions\/96106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}