{"id":1812,"date":"2013-06-28T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:59:57","slug":"nephew-nature-trail-marianne-macrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/nephew-nature-trail-marianne-macrae\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nephew Nature Trail by Marianne MacRae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Me.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1815 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Me.jpg\" alt=\"Me\" width=\"403\" height=\"269\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Me.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Me-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 403px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 403\/269;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Nephew Nature Trail<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Marianne MacRae<\/p>\n<p>A cartoonish stop,<br \/>\nyour magpie eye caught<br \/>\nas though snapped in a snare.<br \/>\nYou bend, scoop and turn,<br \/>\nyour face split open into a shoreline,<br \/>\nan oceanic grin fit to drown me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A jewel! A jewel!&#8221; you cry.<br \/>\nBending for a closer look I see your prize sat,<br \/>\nsolid and slimy as a fried mushroom.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a slug,&#8221; I say. &#8220;They live out here.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Is it real?&#8221; you ask.<br \/>\nAbout as real as you and me.?<br \/>\nYou turn your hand over and it falls to the ground,<br \/>\neasy and uninteresting as a breath.<\/p>\n<p>I look down at the shiny orange-grey pebble<br \/>\nslowly mewling back towards the secret doorways of the grass,<br \/>\nwhere you and me do not exist;<br \/>\nwhere time crackles like a radio signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cartoonish stop,<br \/>\nyour magpie eye caught<\/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":[413,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-poems","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}