{"id":101365,"date":"2021-06-27T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101365"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:02:35","slug":"ode-to-a-flea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ode-to-a-flea\/","title":{"rendered":"ODE to a Flea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest little jumping flea<br \/>\nI truly wish you\u2019d not picked me<br \/>\nTo play the host so you and yours<br \/>\nCan live in comfort with food on our four paws<br \/>\nTo snack whenever and take a nap<br \/>\nWithin the fur around our backs<br \/>\nThe feeling is really not nice<br \/>\nAs you hop about like demented lice<br \/>\nI\u2019m feeling used<br \/>\nAnd strangely abused<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s said you once were circus creatures<br \/>\nPlaying all well-known theatres<br \/>\nNow unemployed your living gone<br \/>\nYou plague us pets which is so very wrong<br \/>\nOur humans care not for your skills<br \/>\nOf jumping from pet to pet as is your will<br \/>\nTo suck the blood from unknown hosts<br \/>\nAnd leave red spots and itchy coats<br \/>\nTo be honest I don\u2019t know what\u2019s in your head<br \/>\nCause if you\u2019re not careful you\u2019ll end up dead<\/p>\n<p>Mankind prefer to deflea their beloved pets<br \/>\nWith potions and sprays from the vets<br \/>\nOne Spot on our necks or collar of drugs<br \/>\nWill have you dead as doorknobs on the rugs<br \/>\nTo be swept away to the great cloud in the sky<br \/>\nAs we wave a heartless goodbye<br \/>\nSo stay outside<br \/>\nOn creatures that are wild<br \/>\nIf you want peace in your short life<br \/>\nDon\u2019t cause us pets so much trouble and strife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest little jumping flea I truly wish you\u2019d not picked me To play the host so you and yours Can live in comfort with food on our four paws To snack whenever and take a nap Within the fur around our backs The feeling is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101365","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\/1605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101707,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101365\/revisions\/101707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}