{"id":102433,"date":"2021-06-27T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102433"},"modified":"2021-07-18T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T03:46:15","slug":"bigfoot-out-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/bigfoot-out-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigfoot Out Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wee hour caught my eye<br \/>\nas I pondered late over x and y.<\/p>\n<p>Time for bed, I guess\u2026<br \/>\nthis place! What a mess!<\/p>\n<p>I closed the busy coding screen<br \/>\nunaware outside, the strangest scene.<\/p>\n<p>A lone campfire in fire season.<br \/>\nThe man inside for some odd reason.<\/p>\n<p>Asleep, or drunk, or didn\u2019t care,<br \/>\nperhaps stupidly unaware<\/p>\n<p>that sparks fly sometimes high<br \/>\ninto dry trees\u2026 then I heard its cry.<\/p>\n<p>There at the edge of the scene<br \/>\nbeyond the trail light\u2019s beam<\/p>\n<p>a howl, neither dog nor cat.<br \/>\nThen, coyotes calling back.<\/p>\n<p>Another hoot never heard before<br \/>\nexcept perhaps in Sasquatch lore.<\/p>\n<p>It barked, then waited, one, two, three<br \/>\nand barked again. Was it hunting me?<\/p>\n<p>I left the fire and locked the door,<br \/>\nafter which I heard no more.<\/p>\n<p>When daylight came, I went to look,<br \/>\nAnd there it was\u2026 the biggest foot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wee hour caught my eye as I pondered late over x and y. Time for bed, I guess\u2026 this place! What a mess! I closed the busy coding screen unaware outside, the strangest scene. A lone campfire in fire season. The man inside for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102433","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104518,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102433\/revisions\/104518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}