{"id":1206,"date":"2021-08-02T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:23:56","slug":"a-mays-day-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/02\/a-mays-day-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"A May\u2019s Day Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">A May\u2019s Day Sonnet\nColin Howe, '16\n\nIt was a hickory tree, upon a cold\nForest, struggles from the earth and twists, flays,\nGnaws itself along, yet still green I suppose.\nIts leaves knew light would come, someday\nSo they remained, un-withered, a testament\nTo the power of laughing it all away.\nAnd sturdy branches, echoed the same sentiment\nBut now the gold rush of the sky, a cay\nOf light, a palm tree oasis, glowing\nAs a moonbeam on a warm summers night\nFills the darkness as time, &nbsp; begins,&nbsp; slowing\u2026\nAnd spinning as it all, falls, out of sight\nSo its branches reach into the maze\nGrowing, ever closer, to the blaze.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Howe, &#8217;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}