{"id":5331,"date":"2021-04-21T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2021-04-21T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:29:19","slug":"the-earth-we-must-mend-by-evie-flynn-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/2021\/04\/the-earth-we-must-mend-by-evie-flynn-27\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe earth we must mend\u201d by Evie Flynn \u201927"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a poem to celebrate the earth<br>For it causes us great mirth<br><br>Even though<br>We chop it down<br><br>Even though<br>We colonized all of its land we found<br><br>This is a poem to celebrate the earth<br><br>Our home of rambling meadows, effervescently sprawling mountain ranges<br><br>Wake up, all you sleeping guardians<br>Oblivious <br><br>To the despair of the limping bear, her child lifeless in the embers of a forest fire<br>She herself standing on a bier<br><br>To the distress of the nomad frogs, their hope a flat tire<br>Their pond <br>Reduced to mire<br><br>To the pain of oceans begging to be relieved<br>Of being polluted in <br>Relentlessly<br><br>Yet there is hope<br>This I will not sugarcoat<br><br>But unplug you Alexas, open your eyes<br>And there it lies<br><br>Marvel at the skies<br>Behold the smallest fly<br><br>And the next day, please <br>tell your friend<br>Here is the Earth we must mend<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a poem to celebrate the earthFor it causes us great mirth Even thoughWe chop it down Even thoughWe colonized all of its land we found This is a poem to celebrate the earth Our home of rambling meadows, effervescently sprawling mountain ranges Wake up, all you sleeping guardiansOblivious To the despair of the limping bear, her child lifeless in the embers of a forest fireShe herself standing on a bier To the distress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,58],"tags":[],"coauthors":[404],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldstonian-middle-school-paper","category-slider"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5335,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fieldstonnews.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}