{"id":10820,"date":"2015-06-13T19:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:44:29","slug":"finnegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/finnegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Finnegan when I was four and he was cowering against the side of his shelter kennel;<\/p>\n<p>His colleagues pranced, as if to say &#8220;Somebody, <em>anybody<\/em>, spring me from this joint!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Finnegan was as placid as \u00a0a monk contemplating the Dao;<\/p>\n<p>It worked;<\/p>\n<p>I told my Mom &#8220;If we don&#8217;t take him, nobody else will&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>And so we did;<\/p>\n<p>I was too young to take care of him, so;<\/p>\n<p>One night;<\/p>\n<p>He broke his leash and ran into the Bayside night;<\/p>\n<p>Ever since then, I&#8217;ve wondered if my weakness for sad sacks;<\/p>\n<p>Is because;<\/p>\n<p>I want Finnegan back.<\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Finnegan when I was four and he was cowering against the side of his shelter kennel; His colleagues pranced, as if to say &#8220;Somebody, anybody, spring me from this joint!&#8221; But Finnegan was as placid as \u00a0a monk contemplating the Dao; It worked;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}