{"id":98518,"date":"2021-06-26T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98518"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:30:50","slug":"fairy-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/fairy-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purple eggs laid on large fern leaves<br \/>\nSunlight dapples across their shells<br \/>\nTiny wings of gossamer gold<br \/>\nEmerge just right, just when they\u2019re told<\/p>\n<p>When the sun is high and the sky is blue<br \/>\nLittle fairies chip through<br \/>\nFragile shells of porcelain<br \/>\nBroken through by dorsal fins<\/p>\n<p>Into this world of black and white<br \/>\nThey call to me with joyful voices<br \/>\nHappy to see me they are<br \/>\nI could never traverse too far<\/p>\n<p>One, two, three and four<br \/>\nfive, six, seven, eight<br \/>\nOh my, two more and we have ten<br \/>\nWherever will we put them and when<\/p>\n<p>Come my children, let us fly<br \/>\nThrough these woods and to the hills<br \/>\nThere you will find the pink unicorns<br \/>\nI assure you they are quite norm<\/p>\n<p>We circle, we glide upon a rainbow cloud<br \/>\nSee how the turtle shells glow and the robins egg sounds<br \/>\nLook there and you will see<br \/>\nOur beautiful home, waiting for you and for me<\/p>\n<p>So when next you see upon the ground<br \/>\nPurple spheres with no known name<br \/>\nPlace them carefully back upon the stem<br \/>\nSo they will come back and stay with you again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple eggs laid on large fern leaves Sunlight dapples across their shells Tiny wings of gossamer gold Emerge just right, just when they\u2019re told When the sun is high and the sky is blue Little fairies chip through Fragile shells of porcelain Broken through by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98518","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\/98518","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98522,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98518\/revisions\/98522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}