{"id":1075,"date":"2020-09-18T03:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2020-09-18T03:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T08:09:51","slug":"reelfoot-lake-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/reelfoot-lake-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Reelfoot Lake Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><big><big><br \/><big><\/big>Reelfoot Lake Poem<br \/>by<br \/>Mary Bursell Maupin<br \/><\/big><\/big><big><br \/><\/big><\/p>\n<div><big>Misty Shadows on the Lake \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s valley, like shadows, is low, long and wide,<br \/>Surrounded with trees, lush and green.<br \/>An azure sky reflects in the waters of the lake,<br \/>Enhancing it&#8217;s own brilliance and splendor.<br \/><br \/>A lone eagle searches the trees for a haven among the cypress.<br \/>Lusterless logs of turtles still bathe in the dying rays of the sun.<br \/>A squadron of geese, in a giant chevron, prepare the end of day&#8217;s flight.<br \/><br \/>Now comes the dawn and the mist begins to swell.<br \/>Encompassing all the land&#8217;s inhabitants.<br \/>Not a sound&#8230; Not a leaf fluttering &#8230; Every thing is still.<br \/><br \/>The mist begins to rise, slowly at first.<br \/>Then the trees begin a tremor and reverberate<br \/>Into a resonance of unmeasured depth.<br \/><br \/>As the mist begins to slip away,<br \/>So does the lone figure who reels across the waters,<br \/>Melds into the woods on the far side of the lake, <br \/>And evaporates with the mist.<\/big><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reelfoot Lake PoembyMary Bursell Maupin Misty Shadows on the Lake \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s valley, like shadows, is low, long and wide,Surrounded with trees, lush and green.An azure sky reflects in the waters of the lake,Enhancing it&#8217;s own brilliance and splendor. A lone eagle searches the trees for a haven among the cypress.Lusterless logs of turtles still <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/reelfoot-lake-poem\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2020","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 18, 2020 3:09 am","modified":"Updated on September 18, 2020 3:09 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}