{"id":10822,"date":"2015-06-13T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10822"},"modified":"2015-06-13T21:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:43:36","slug":"hour-11-a-blessed-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-11-a-blessed-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11 \u2014 A Blessed Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ours is a blessed tribe<br \/>\nWe believe<br \/>\nThe reverse of our name being <em>G-O-D<\/em><br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t help but feel happy at the association<\/p>\n<p>As the old story goes<br \/>\nA long time ago, we left the forest<br \/>\nSeparating ourselves from our cousins \u2014<br \/>\nThe wolves, the jackals, the foxes, the coyotes<br \/>\nWe left\u00a0the wild life behind<br \/>\nChoosing, instead,\u00a0to live with\u00a0humans<br \/>\nProviding them with safety<br \/>\nand companionship<\/p>\n<p>Since then, we identify ourselves<br \/>\nBy the humans we serve<br \/>\nand the places we protect<br \/>\nFor the sake of that loyalty<br \/>\nWe often fight with our own kind<br \/>\nAs a matter of course<br \/>\nAs a matter of principle<\/p>\n<p>What gives us great\u00a0happiness<br \/>\nis seeing our kids play with human children<br \/>\nA happy child is the sign of\u00a0a happy family!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ours is a blessed tribe We believe The reverse of our name being G-O-D We can&#8217;t help but feel happy at the association As the old story goes A long time ago, we left the forest Separating ourselves from our cousins \u2014 The wolves, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822","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\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11641,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10822\/revisions\/11641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}