{"id":96155,"date":"2021-06-26T19:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96155"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:44:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:44:57","slug":"rangers-autumn-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/rangers-autumn-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranger&#8217;s Autumn Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn.<\/p>\n<p>A mixed bag for a forest ranger.<\/p>\n<p>Clouds floating over<\/p>\n<p>a periwinkle sky,<\/p>\n<p>no clue they offer<\/p>\n<p>of the danger nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Nature&#8217;s golden-green pallet spread<\/p>\n<p>across a pine-needle floor, makes a bed<\/p>\n<p>under trees wrapped in vines of ivy,<\/p>\n<p>touching the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing the air, dusty and dry,<\/p>\n<p>gumboots heavy,<\/p>\n<p>lifeless leaves\u00a0beat<\/p>\n<p>into the clay beneath his feet.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the smoldering stench.<\/p>\n<p>His focus today is to quench<\/p>\n<p>flickering flames, before<\/p>\n<p>they reach a weathered door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn. A mixed bag for a forest ranger. Clouds floating over a periwinkle sky, no clue they offer of the danger nearby. Nature&#8217;s golden-green pallet spread across a pine-needle floor, makes a bed under trees wrapped in vines of ivy, touching the sky. Sensing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96155","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\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104557,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96155\/revisions\/104557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}