{"id":454,"date":"2009-07-01T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T20:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2009\/07\/01\/poetry-project-day-1\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:58:00","slug":"poetry-project-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2009\/07\/01\/poetry-project-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Project&#8211;Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <strong>Evening<\/strong>         <a href='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/whippoorwill.jpg' title='whippoorwill.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/whippoorwill.thumbnail.jpg' alt='whippoorwill.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whip-poor-will. . . . . .whip-poor-will. . .<br \/>\nThe sun has already descended below the valleyside,<br \/>\nBut I sit in my mother&#8217;s lawn chair rocker<br \/>\nStrips of vinyl green then white supporting me<br \/>\nJust waiting and absorbing.<br \/>\nRawww-ket. . . . .Rawww-ket. . . .<br \/>\nThe breeze has already cooled<br \/>\nAs it does upon dusk arrival.<br \/>\nDogs lie at my feet, the scent of their rolling<br \/>\nIn decayed flesh a memory now.<br \/>\nThe man in white has finished his stint in the garden.<br \/>\nHis demeanor so reminiscent. . .<br \/>\nHis woman working by his side as they strategize<br \/>\nOn potato yields in drought vs.plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Whip-poor-will. . . . . .whip-poor-will. . .<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard they are far fewer in this country now,<br \/>\nFar fewer than when we came to this Valley.<br \/>\nThey still serenade as I gaze up the hillside<br \/>\nKnowing that others rest listening to the song.<br \/>\nThey belong here as do I.<br \/>\nI rock as the dogs breathe on my bare feet,<br \/>\nAnd the breeze rustles the branches<br \/>\nAbove the graves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening Whip-poor-will. . . . . .whip-poor-will. . . The sun has already descended below the valleyside, But I sit in my mother&#8217;s lawn chair rocker Strips of vinyl green then white supporting me Just waiting and absorbing. Rawww-ket. . . . .Rawww-ket. . . . The breeze has already cooled As it does upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,52,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}