{"id":4854,"date":"2012-04-22T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T02:19:29","slug":"day-22-napowrimo2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"Day 22 #NaPoWriMo2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/2012\/04\/day-22\/\" title=\"Day 22, NaPoWriMo\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s NaPoWriMo prompt<\/a> was pretty darn interesting but well within my month&#8217;s theme! And I&#8217;d sure like to have that as an option. Maybe I need to leave some small beer out at night! So with no further ado:<\/p>\n<p>32.<\/p>\n<p>I heard one ask how<br \/>\nwe, small as we are,<br \/>\ncould possibly mow a field<br \/>\nor keep our paths.<br \/>\nWe do not touch scythes of iron<br \/>\nnor use gas-powered mowers.<br \/>\nOne wondered if we grazed<br \/>\nlike a field of cows<br \/>\nand made me laugh into my hand.<\/p>\n<p>Have they not seen<br \/>\nthe circles in the next dew?<br \/>\nOh, they&#8217;re not awake then, you say.<\/p>\n<p>Here let me help you plant<br \/>\neach seed sprouting<br \/>\nthrowing up a viny tether<br \/>\nand a small wooly lamb<\/p>\n<p>There! Look at them<br \/>\na field of them grazing<br \/>\nhappy, chewing, chewing.<br \/>\nThey butt heads only where<br \/>\neach circle overlaps<br \/>\nin crescent fashion<br \/>\nOne turns left,<br \/>\nthe other right, to graze<\/p>\n<p>There fades the first planted,<br \/>\nhaving eaten all in reach,<br \/>\nthe tendril sending up<br \/>\na momentary flower<br \/>\nbrilliant yellow-green<br \/>\ndotted with red<br \/>\npreposterous by all accounts<br \/>\nbut then, a seed,<br \/>\nplump, black or white, wooly<br \/>\nwhich drops to the ground<br \/>\nas the plant recedes.<br \/>\nWe put them back in our bags<br \/>\nfor the next lawn<br \/>\nwhere they&#8217;ll grow<br \/>\nfat and happy in the night.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll stay back to watch<br \/>\nyour surprise<br \/>\nand drink your small beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard one ask how \u2022 we, small as we are, \u2022 could possibly mow a field \u2022 or keep our paths. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14,28,65,66],"tags":[523,528,542],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fae-and-elvish","category-in-the-neighborhood","category-napowrimo","category-national-haiku-day","tag-fae-and-elvish","tag-in-the-neighborhood","tag-national-haiku-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-1gi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}