{"id":2292,"date":"2014-02-27T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:15:07","slug":"sweet-flesh-fruit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/sweet-flesh-fruit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Flesh Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><em>by<\/em> <em>Teresa Kellmer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s warm<br \/>\nAnd the summer sun beats down on<br \/>\nThe small child<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nThe Old Woman<br \/>\nAnd<br \/>\nThe Mother<\/p>\n<p>It shines down through the leaves<br \/>\nThrough the branches of the towering mango tree<\/p>\n<p>A tree that sheltered small children<br \/>\nWishing they could hide<br \/>\nWithin it\u2019s cool green hidden spaces<br \/>\nA tree that never witnessed night terrors<br \/>\nOf screaming demons disguised as those we should love<\/p>\n<p>A tree, pristine and solemn<br \/>\nWhose only reason is to offer<br \/>\nCool shade<br \/>\nSafe harbor and<br \/>\nSweet flesh fruit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/Kellmer-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2554\" alt=\"Kellmer image\" src=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/02\/Kellmer-image-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>[typography font=&#8221;Droid Sans Mono&#8221; size=&#8221;9&#8243; size_format=&#8221;px&#8221;]Author bio: T. Kellmer learned to write poetry from her father.\u00a0 She lives in Monroe with her fabulous husband and 2 bizarrely awesome children. She is a student in the ALDAC program here at BC.[\/typography]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Teresa Kellmer It\u2019s warm And the summer sun beats down on The small child And The Old Woman And The Mother It shines down through the leaves Through the branches of the towering mango tree A tree that sheltered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/sweet-flesh-fruit-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}