{"id":1229,"date":"2018-03-30T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T01:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2019-06-07T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T15:13:11","slug":"easters-oak-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/easters-oak-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter&#8217;s Oak Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1739 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/easter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I saw Death<br \/>\nAnd I grieved, right then<br \/>\nStock still, I recalled the you of summers past, at your finest<br \/>\nSuave sentinel, on duty at the front door<br \/>\nLoosely, artistically lounging at your post<br \/>\nTerribly handsome, careless and oblivious to shape or direction, reclining where you pleased<br \/>\nYour blossom deliveries grew more robust every season, mellowing with the summer sun<br \/>\nUntil tinged with pink gold dust, though your nearby friends bowed and curled in heat\u2019s surrender<br \/>\nHow I\u2019ll miss you, I thought, averting my gaze from your bare limbs, ugly, chicken-bone stalks shedding nasty scales from ragged ends<br \/>\nGuess we\u2019ll have to cut you down.<br \/>\nBut a stay was granted, an unseen judge knew more than I<br \/>\nWhen a few mornings later the cold spring wind coyly waved a branch at me and the dog<br \/>\nLook here look here look here, the wind waved, at these tiny, itty bitty green tips, just two, tentatively emerging from the jagged\u00a0drumstick end<br \/>\nAnd I remembered that nature books her own appointments, strictly on her own time, her calendar revealed to none in this life<br \/>\nAnd I remembered to hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Death And I grieved, right then Stock still, I recalled the you of summers past, at your finest Suave sentinel, on duty at the front door Loosely, artistically lounging at your post Terribly handsome, careless and oblivious to shape or direction, reclining where you pleased Your blossom deliveries grew more robust every season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmachronicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}