{"id":99391,"date":"2021-06-27T00:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99391"},"modified":"2021-06-27T00:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T04:26:44","slug":"the-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Van Gogh painted the sunflowers<br \/>\nHarsh in their brightness<br \/>\nThick was the paint on the canvas<br \/>\nStanding out from the flat surface<br \/>\nEvery color shone<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh drank the sunflowers<br \/>\nHe absorbed every image around him<br \/>\nTook it in and consumed it<br \/>\nDrank it down like the finest of wines<br \/>\nAnd it overwhelmed him<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh became the sunflowers<br \/>\nShrank himself down into their colors<br \/>\nTwisted his body<br \/>\nTo better accommodate their shape<br \/>\nDisappearing into himself<\/p>\n<p>Van Gogh died in the sunflowers<br \/>\nGave his very last breath<br \/>\nTo their life on the walls<br \/>\nAwed by many<br \/>\nBut so few realizing what they see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Gogh painted the sunflowers Harsh in their brightness Thick was the paint on the canvas Standing out from the flat surface Every color shone Van Gogh drank the sunflowers He absorbed every image around him Took it in and consumed it Drank it down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99391","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99397,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99391\/revisions\/99397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}