{"id":39905,"date":"2018-12-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/writers-weir-wish-list\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T18:43:09","slug":"writers-weir-wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/writers-weir-wish-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wish List <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She wants a swing set<\/p>\n<p>and a small playground from Santa.<\/p>\n<p>What could be better<\/p>\n<p>for a spirit that flies on fantasy<\/p>\n<p>and a body that sings with motion?<\/p>\n<p>She adds to her list:<\/p>\n<p>mushrooms, pieces of bark,<\/p>\n<p>three bugs in a cage,<\/p>\n<p>and a skeleton<\/p>\n<p>from any small animal.<\/p>\n<p>My gift to her,<\/p>\n<p>a rock collection and magnifying lens<\/p>\n<p>I hope will make up for<\/p>\n<p>the bark, bugs and skeleton<\/p>\n<p>that are not under the tree.<\/p>\n<p>The gift I receive<\/p>\n<p>wasn&rsquo;t on my wish list either.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&rsquo;t know I needed<\/p>\n<p>her wiggly body next to mine<\/p>\n<p>sweetly singing Silent Night.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; A poem submitted by reader Dianne DeSloover<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><em>\u2022 The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Writers\u2019 Weir. To submit a piece for consideration, email us at editor@capweek.com.<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A holiday poem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,337,505],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","tag-ccw","tag-poetry","tag-writers-weir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39905"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}