{"id":99013,"date":"2021-06-26T23:39:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99013"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:39:21","slug":"poem-iv-lilypad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-iv-lilypad\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem IV: LilyPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green orbs stare back at me<br \/>\nwhere lily pads used to be<br \/>\nask me what the sacrifice was for.<br \/>\nAsk, how long before the lotus<br \/>\nis allowed to rip through the riverbed<br \/>\nand reincarnate.<br \/>\nAsk, if the morning has passed,<br \/>\nif dusk has arrived.<br \/>\nAsk, if now the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>The season for blossom has long turned into autumn but the permafrost refuses to thaw from this heart frozen in the winter of partition.<\/p>\n<p>More poetry via instagram @anjaanography<\/p>\n<p><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_233614_223.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green orbs stare back at me where lily pads used to be ask me what the sacrifice was for. Ask, how long before the lotus is allowed to rip through the riverbed and reincarnate. Ask, if the morning has passed, if dusk has arrived. Ask,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99013","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\/3288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99030,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99013\/revisions\/99030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}