{"id":10033,"date":"2015-06-13T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2015-06-13T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:20:23","slug":"lonely-old-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/lonely-old-shoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely, Old Shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely, old shoe<br \/>\nin the alley,<br \/>\nwhere did you come from?<\/p>\n<p>Are you all alone in this world?<br \/>\nWhere is your match?<br \/>\nIs the other of you lost, too?<\/p>\n<p>Did your owner leave you behind?<br \/>\nFor what reason?<br \/>\nWere you too small?<br \/>\nToo big?<br \/>\nToo broken?<br \/>\nOr just in the way?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you meticulously placed here?<\/p>\n<p>Was your owner in trouble?<br \/>\nDid she have to fling you off to escape an offender, or officer?<\/p>\n<p>Were you left behind on a trail<br \/>\nfor someone to find your owner,<br \/>\nlike Cinderella tale?<\/p>\n<p>Were you ripped off of your owner by a dog?<\/p>\n<p>Were you flung off in a heat of passion,<br \/>\nnever to be found again?<\/p>\n<p>Or was your owner pretending you were hidden treasure,<br \/>\nthat was lost track of in the midst of play?<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you came from,<br \/>\nI bid to leave you where you lie.<br \/>\nPerhaps your owner will return,<br \/>\nand you will have a reunited cry.<\/p>\n<p>Lonely, old shoe in the alley,<br \/>\nall my current best I am sending.<br \/>\nLonely, old shoe in the alley,<br \/>\nI wish you a Happy Ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely, old shoe in the alley, where did you come from? Are you all alone in this world? Where is your match? Is the other of you lost, too? Did your owner leave you behind? For what reason? Were you too small? Too big? Too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-wondering-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}