{"id":1539,"date":"2013-01-14T00:39:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:49:01","slug":"in-defense-of-ruin-by-joshua-converse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/in-defense-of-ruin-by-joshua-converse\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Ruin by Joshua Converse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sunset1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1540 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sunset1.jpg\" alt=\"sunset1\" width=\"445\" height=\"260\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sunset1.jpg 1235w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sunset1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sunset1-1024x599.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 445px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 445\/260;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">In Defense of Ruin<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Joshua Converse<\/p>\n<p>I love to see a parking lot being<br \/>\nreclaimed by the weeds,<br \/>\nwhen it becomes<br \/>\nDefiant of asphalt and stone.<br \/>\n-The yellow dandelions<br \/>\npush up through the cracks<br \/>\nwith joined voices of<br \/>\nsilent<br \/>\npatient<br \/>\nrebellion.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nJoshua Converse was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up on a horse farm in Louisiana. He spent 4 years in the U.S. Army and deployed to the Middle East during the war. He holds an AA in English and a BA in Literature, and continues working toward an MA as a grad student at San Francisco State University. He lives in Monterey, CA with his wife and their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to see a parking lot being<br \/>\nreclaimed by the weeds,<br \/>\nwhen it becomes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}