{"id":107066,"date":"2022-06-25T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107066"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:41:39","slug":"dogspeak-hour-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-hour-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak  Hour 1 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder<br \/>\nabout these humans \u2013<br \/>\ntheir manic mood swings<br \/>\nabout the least important stuff<br \/>\nlike what to wear and where<br \/>\nto go, what to eat, who to go<br \/>\nwith or without, who pays, who drives&#8230;<br \/>\nit drives me out of my canine head<br \/>\nto think they are stressing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy has some sage advice<br \/>\nabout worry; after all, He made<br \/>\nthe lilies in the field to sprout,<br \/>\ngrow, bloom, and die. He gave<br \/>\nbirds wings to fly, skills to build<br \/>\nnests, multiply; to forage for food<br \/>\nfor their families and the sense to<br \/>\nstay away from felines. He may<br \/>\nhave made these peoplekind &#8230;<br \/>\nthough some aren\u2019t too kind&#8230;<br \/>\nin his image but we are a reflection<br \/>\nof Him. It\u2019s what we are. God. Dog.<br \/>\nIt makes us, well special and we love<br \/>\neverything about Him&#8230; just maybe<br \/>\nquestioning his judgment with<br \/>\nthese human beings.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened when it came<br \/>\nto humans? Life is good, plenty<br \/>\nto do, to see, to experience first paw,<br \/>\numm, hand, so who cares who has<br \/>\nthe bigger house or truck or paycheck?<br \/>\nThey are worrying themselves into<br \/>\na shorter life and then that big boat<br \/>\nbopping around the bay won\u2019t mean<br \/>\na thing.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they get the message soon.<br \/>\nAfter all, this is an important time.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time for my dinner.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak Sometimes I wonder about these humans \u2013 their manic mood swings about the least important stuff like what to wear and where to go, what to eat, who to go with or without, who pays, who drives&#8230; it drives me out of my canine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107066","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107073,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107066\/revisions\/107073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}