{"id":10908,"date":"2015-06-13T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:34:52","slug":"hour-11-dog-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-11-dog-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11; dog-poem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be the rutting season<\/p>\n<p>because I haven&#8217;t seen you in ages,<\/p>\n<p>and you have that stretched-thin look you get<\/p>\n<p>when running with a new bitch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I waited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hours, sometimes days, I waited,<\/p>\n<p>a broken-heart clich\u00e9,<\/p>\n<p>phone in hand, heart in my mouth<\/p>\n<p>turning to rocks and ashes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remembered who I was, like Rudyard Kipling said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe best ones don&#8217;t wait for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I put down the phone, slipped off my shoes,<\/p>\n<p>and went to howl at the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be the rutting season because I haven&#8217;t seen you in ages, and you have that stretched-thin look you get when running with a new bitch. &nbsp; I waited. &nbsp; Hours, sometimes days, I waited, a broken-heart clich\u00e9, phone in hand, heart in my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10918,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10908\/revisions\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}