Suppose we do return again as animals,<\/p>\n
well, Alfred is the dog I want to be when I live again.<\/p>\n
Notice his wizened eyes gazing upon us with both<\/p>\n
pride and majesty on his spacious chair ready for his next nap.<\/p>\n
Having traveled the world on grueling expeditions and youthful larks,<\/p>\n
he has known bitter, uncompromising work and exhuberant, blissful adventures.<\/p>\n
He now reigns over his house with his seventeen children, eighty-four grandchildren, and<\/p>\n
too many great-grandchildren to keep track of as he listens to them all bark<\/p>\n
their birthday greetings. Ah yes, today is his bountiful day as we celebrate his bountiful life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suppose we do return again as animals, well, Alfred is the dog I want to be when I live again. Notice his wizened eyes gazing upon us with both pride and majesty on his spacious chair ready for his next nap. Having traveled the world…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111027,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110914\/revisions\/111027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}