{"id":96126,"date":"2021-06-26T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96126"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:26:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:26:19","slug":"dappled-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dappled-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dappled Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laying on the mossy cool<br \/>\nI watch the living skyscrapers<br \/>\nGreen and drooping with their<br \/>\nBurdens of leafy bowers<br \/>\nScented cedars spreading their<br \/>\nCarpet of soft needles<br \/>\nThe incense of the cool forest<br \/>\nDelightfully assaulting my every sense<br \/>\nAs clouds sail through the periwinkle sky<br \/>\nThey seem close enough to spread themselves<br \/>\nOver the tops of the everlasting sentinel Forest Rangers<br \/>\nWho sway in the gusting breezes<br \/>\nTo the beat of the music of the wild world<br \/>\nLong ago I abandoned gumboots and socks<br \/>\nTo sink my toes into the fragrant moss<br \/>\nLosing myself in the sound of a small trickling<br \/>\nWaterfall<br \/>\nPouring all of its tears of wonder<br \/>\nInto a talking creek that wanders past rocks<br \/>\nUnder the fingers of trees<br \/>\nDripping with lichen<br \/>\nA bird trills high notes of euphoria<br \/>\nI long to express<br \/>\nThis wonder, of a little slice of the undisturbed world  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laying on the mossy cool I watch the living skyscrapers Green and drooping with their Burdens of leafy bowers Scented cedars spreading their Carpet of soft needles The incense of the cool forest Delightfully assaulting my every sense As clouds sail through the periwinkle sky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96126","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96342,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96126\/revisions\/96342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}