{"id":610,"date":"2018-06-01T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2025-01-21T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T04:49:05","slug":"my-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/?page_id=610","title":{"rendered":"My Apple Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For Amber and Neve<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EA58FFDB-1777-4307-B283-5B1C9F5AD8F4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EA58FFDB-1777-4307-B283-5B1C9F5AD8F4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I had an apple tree<br \/>\nthat grew ten times as tall as me.<br \/>\nI\u2019d clamber up its lofty limbs<br \/>\nand hide amongst the greenery.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to sit there, way up high,<br \/>\nand pick the fruit that grew nearby.<br \/>\nI\u2019d munch my crunchy, juicy snacks<br \/>\nand watch the distant world rush by.<\/p>\n<p>But having dreams of trees is hard<br \/>\nwhen nothing grows in our front yard<br \/>\nexcept our ancient almond tree.<br \/>\nAnd almonds- ugh!- they taste like card.<\/p>\n<p>So, that is why I hatched this scheme<br \/>\nto carry out my longed-for dream,<br \/>\nand all it takes is store-bought fruit<br \/>\nto make things not quite what they seem.<\/p>\n<p>Now, look up high and you might see<br \/>\nsome apples in our almond tree<br \/>\ntucked safely in-between each branch,<br \/>\njust waiting to be picked&#8230;\u00a0by me!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Kristin Martin 2018<\/p>\n<p>This poem is also in my poetry book,\u00a0<em>To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?\u00a0<\/em>(Glimmer Press, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Amber and Neve I wish I had an apple tree that grew ten times as tall as me. I\u2019d clamber up its lofty limbs and hide amongst the greenery. I\u2019d love to sit there, way up high, and pick the fruit that grew nearby. I\u2019d munch my crunchy, juicy snacks and watch the distant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":481,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/1477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristinmartin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}