{"id":4410,"date":"2014-07-28T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2014-07-28T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T05:30:32","slug":"autumn-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a title=\"dew\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dew.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4411\" alt=\"dew\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dew-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dew-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dew-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<blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">Autumn Rains<\/p>\n<p>Our lawn is in a state of disrepair; the grass<br \/> lies dormant, trampled brown; and dead.<br \/> For only hardy weeds can thrive out here<br \/> And even those &#8211; our urge is to de-head!<br \/> My neighbour\u2019s patch is brilliant, emerald green.<br \/> Not for him this gasping, drought struck land.<br \/> He has the liveliest grass I\u2019ve ever seen!<br \/> From founts of water hosed by liberal hand.<br \/> Not us! We wait for autumn rains to fall.<br \/> And though my fingers itch to bring back life,<br \/> I must desist; we are in Nature\u2019s thrall,<br \/> To interfere may cause some future strife.<br \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So in this desert moment we just wait,<br \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For autumn rains to come and satiate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Edwards<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\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-4410","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\/4410","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=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}