{"id":96398,"date":"2021-06-26T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96398"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:32:19","slug":"retirement-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/retirement-day\/","title":{"rendered":"retirement day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a <strong>periwink<\/strong>le sky provided background,<\/p>\n<p>For a storm <strong>cloud<\/strong> to gather its strength,<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>spread<\/strong> warning before the thunder and lightning would start,<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Forest Ranger <\/strong>checked her dashboard clock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, her lifetime career would be crowned &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Praised for its unblemished length.<\/p>\n<p>Easily given, since it owned her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Nature had called her to a<strong> beat,<\/strong> down on the dock.<\/p>\n<p>By Nancy Ann Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a periwinkle sky provided background, For a storm cloud to gather its strength, And spread warning before the thunder and lightning would start, The Forest Ranger checked her dashboard clock. &nbsp; Tonight, her lifetime career would be crowned &#8212; Praised for its unblemished length&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[4520,4519,4518],"class_list":["post-96398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-abcd-rhyme-pattern","tag-five-of-10-words","tag-forest-ranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96398","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96445,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96398\/revisions\/96445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}