{"id":2545,"date":"2025-12-22T22:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/coming-from-within-a-rising-hedge\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:57:03","slug":"coming-from-within-a-rising-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/coming-from-within-a-rising-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming from within a rising hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from within a rising hedge<br \/>\nOf voluptuous white oleander &#8211;<br \/>\nI sensed a turmoil; one writhe<br \/>\nSeduced better than before<\/p>\n<p>And within the naked boughs<br \/>\nOf some palo verde &#8211; in a rustle<br \/>\nOf few leaves &#8211; I thought I saw<br \/>\nAmong them a potential<\/p>\n<p>So quick and sullen, I almost not<br \/>\nDeemed it worthy a mention<br \/>\nUntil a lone grackle squawked<br \/>\nThat vernal suspicion<\/p>\n<p>Then the wind flirted with a sage<br \/>\nWhose mane shimmied &#8211; fervid &#8211;<br \/>\nAs if the breath of Earth had encouraged<br \/>\nSpring to dance for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from within a rising hedge Of voluptuous white oleander &#8211; I sensed a turmoil; one writhe Seduced better than before And within the naked boughs Of some palo verde &#8211; in a rustle Of few leaves &#8211; I thought I saw Among them a potential So quick and sullen, I almost not Deemed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-poetry","category-nature-poetry","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}