{"id":6233,"date":"2022-05-19T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:13:16","slug":"the-poet-bemoans-again-the-failure-of-his-tomato-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2022\/05\/19\/the-poet-bemoans-again-the-failure-of-his-tomato-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Sonnet No. (\u221a5\u00b11)\/2. In Which the Poet Bemoans, Again, the Failure of His Tomato Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the seeds that Christ forgot to mention,<br \/>\nGuaranteed by faith and factory rearing,<br \/>\nSown not on rock nor thorn nor bitten path<br \/>\nBut in good scientific soil, and bathed<br \/>\nWith electrically timed warmth and light.<br \/>\nThey thrust themselves awake like Christmas morn,<br \/>\nUnfurled leaves like mouths of baby birds<br \/>\nMother-fed, quiescent while the year matured,<br \/>\nStunted, never feathered out for flight.<br \/>\nBeware, my brothers, engineered intention!<br \/>\nEvery life must suffer nature&#8217;s wrath.<br \/>\nPlant by singing and by signs. Mourn<br \/>\nThe lost. Save what will be saved.<br \/>\nListen though you are not granted hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the seeds that Christ forgot to mention, Guaranteed by faith and factory rearing, Sown not on rock nor thorn nor bitten path But in good scientific soil, and bathed With electrically timed warmth and light. They thrust themselves awake like Christmas morn, Unfurled leaves like mouths of baby birds Mother-fed, quiescent while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[82,642,163,199],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-1Cx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6234,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}