{"id":1445,"date":"2014-12-12T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:26:29","slug":"crabapple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"crabapple tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/crabapple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/crabapple-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"crabapple\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/crabapple-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/crabapple.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>that fragile and twisted<br \/>\ncrabapple tree<br \/>\nrooted on the sunny side<br \/>\nof the little cape cod house<br \/>\neven with,<br \/>\na big hole in its trunk<br \/>\nmaking it appear<br \/>\nsomewhat hollow inside<br \/>\nthat crabapple tree<br \/>\nonce again beginning<br \/>\nto reveal the sign<br \/>\nit has survived another winter<br \/>\nby sprouting forth the buds<br \/>\nof which will flaunt<br \/>\nfor only a brief time<br \/>\nthose gorgeous flowers<br \/>\nthat will not only give<br \/>\na blessing to spring<br \/>\nand a felt sense<br \/>\nof the spiritual<br \/>\nto all who spy a look<br \/>\nat that tree\u2019s beauty<br \/>\nbut also<br \/>\nthis wondrous<br \/>\nact of flowering<br \/>\nwill again<br \/>\nhelp to fulfill<br \/>\nthe destiny<br \/>\nbestowed upon<br \/>\nits given, whole name \u00a0 ~<\/p>\n<p>oh tree, even if,<br \/>\nyou are<br \/>\nfragile and twisted<br \/>\nand somewhat hollow inside<br \/>\nyou,<br \/>\nyes,<br \/>\nyou are,<br \/>\nto me at least<br \/>\nthat magnificent<br \/>\nflowering crabapple tree<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that fragile and twisted crabapple tree rooted on the sunny side of the little cape cod house even with, a big hole in its trunk making it appear somewhat hollow inside that crabapple tree once again beginning to reveal the sign it has survived another winter by sprouting forth the buds of which will flaunt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;crabapple tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}