{"id":2473,"date":"2013-08-03T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T06:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2013-08-08T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:17:47","slug":"in-my-secret-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"In my secret forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"4536641522_c2af72a832_z\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4536641522_c2af72a832_z.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2474\" alt=\"4536641522_c2af72a832_z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4536641522_c2af72a832_z-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4536641522_c2af72a832_z-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4536641522_c2af72a832_z-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">In my secret forest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my secret forest<br \/> at the bottom of my garden<br \/> I discovered a shell<\/p>\n<p>It was empty<\/p>\n<p>Yet when I held it<br \/> to my ear<br \/> I found it filled with sound<\/p>\n<p>The swirling ocean<br \/> rushing, roaring, crashing<br \/> on to the beach<\/p>\n<p>The whistling of the wind<br \/> whipping up the sand<br \/> stinging my eyes<\/p>\n<p>Oh no!<\/p>\n<p>I quickly dropped the shell<br \/> and all was calm again<\/p>\n<p>I tasted a salty tear<br \/> dislodged by the sands<br \/> of my imagination<\/p>\n<p>Rubbed my red rimmed eyes<br \/> as if I really had<br \/> swam in the ocean<\/p>\n<p>Held my face up to the breeze<br \/> swung my arms and danced<br \/> along the beach<\/p>\n<p>rejoicing in my freedom<\/p>\n<p>The shell fell silent<br \/> in my secret forest<br \/> at the bottom of my garden<\/p>\n<p>A gift from the sea<br \/> longing for me<\/p>\n<p>to pick it up once more<br \/> and let the genie free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Amanda Edwards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justwritewithmandy.blogspot.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amanda Edwards<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}