{"id":108144,"date":"2022-06-25T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108144"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:53:52","slug":"dogspeak-2-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-2-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak #2  Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #2<\/p>\n<p>You sleep half as much as I do<br \/>\nwhich is still not enough but<br \/>\nwhen I wake for the first time,<br \/>\nno matter what the clock says,<br \/>\nit\u2019s time to get up.<\/p>\n<p>Get up.<br \/>\nI have to go out.<br \/>\nGet up.<br \/>\nNow!<\/p>\n<p>And finally, you get the message.<br \/>\nTrudge down the steps in the dark,<br \/>\nunlock the back door, hold it open<br \/>\nand I bound out like joy is tickling<br \/>\nmy feet. Ahh, so good. And then,<br \/>\ntired, I curl up on the deck to fall<br \/>\nfast asleep. I need my 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p>You yawn at the door, see me<br \/>\ndo nothing important; you get huffy<br \/>\nand tell me to go do my business.<br \/>\nSleep is my business and I don\u2019t care<br \/>\nwhere. As though I need to know,<br \/>\nyou tell me it is one in the morning.<br \/>\nYeah, so? I stretch, get up and race<br \/>\nyou to your pillow. I win.<\/p>\n<p>But you push me over, grumbling<br \/>\nabout your alarm set for seven<br \/>\nbefore punching your pillow and<br \/>\nfalling into snoreland.<\/p>\n<p>We do this several times a night<br \/>\nuntil you decide to ignore me. Not<br \/>\nadvisable.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me. Before you lumber<br \/>\nmumbling off to work, you\u2019ll be<br \/>\npulling out the carpet cleaner.<br \/>\nAnd then I\u2019ll have nine blissful<br \/>\nhours of sleep. I\u2019ll miss you but<br \/>\nhave a nice day!<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #2 You sleep half as much as I do which is still not enough but when I wake for the first time, no matter what the clock says, it\u2019s time to get up. Get up. I have to go out. Get up. Now! And&#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-108144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108144","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=108144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108152,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108144\/revisions\/108152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}