{"id":546,"date":"2014-04-30T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=546"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:51:12","slug":"poem-of-the-month-may-total-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, May 2014: Total Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOTAL SURRENDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sit back and let<br \/>\nthe blissful sun do her work<br \/>\non my upturned face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From his melody<br \/>\nit sounds as if the blackbird<br \/>\nis doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I fill the birdbath<br \/>\nwith fresh clean sparkling water<br \/>\nfor our feathered friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The whole universe<br \/>\nfocuses on a poet<br \/>\nbasking in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Far off, the dull roar<br \/>\nof traffic going nowhere<br \/>\nand nations at war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Total surrender &#8211;<br \/>\nthe boy next door is bouncing<br \/>\na ball in his yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; TOTAL SURRENDER &nbsp; I sit back and let the blissful sun do her work on my upturned face. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}