{"id":245,"date":"2013-04-01T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/dry-spell\/"},"modified":"2013-04-01T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:54:30","slug":"dry-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/dry-spell\/","title":{"rendered":"dry spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is so nice of you<br \/>\nto ask about my poetry.<br \/>\n&#8220;Anything new?&#8221;<br \/>\nOnly seeds<br \/>\non fallow ground<br \/>\nmy personal drought,<br \/>\nI reply dryly<br \/>\nthrough cracked lips,<br \/>\nmy laugh the crunch<br \/>\nof leaves &#038; snap of twigs.<\/p>\n<p>In my hands this paper<br \/>\nbrowns and curls,<br \/>\nthe pen melts,<br \/>\nand in flame<br \/>\nI remember<br \/>\nsome seeds need fire<br \/>\nsome brush must burn<br \/>\nbefore we grow. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><small>11\/2\/2003<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is so nice of you to ask about my poetry. &#8220;Anything new?&#8221; Only seeds on fallow ground my personal drought, I reply dryly through cracked lips, my laugh the crunch of leaves &#038; snap of twigs. In my hands this paper browns and curls, the pen melts, and in flame I remember some seeds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poems\/2013-a-month-of-somedays\/dry-spell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">dry spell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[107,160,71],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-a-month-of-somedays","tag-drought","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}