{"id":111937,"date":"2022-06-25T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111937"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:17:27","slug":"dogspeak-6-you-and-me-and-he-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-6-you-and-me-and-he-she\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak #6  You and Me and He\/She"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #6 You and Me and He\/She<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lonely when you\u2019re not home<br \/>\nand I know you need to go to work<br \/>\nto make bone money, yeah money<br \/>\nto buy bones, but it\u2019s so quiet when<br \/>\nyou\u2019re not here.<\/p>\n<p>Can you get me a brother or a sister,<br \/>\na he or she? I won\u2019t love you any less,<br \/>\nwon\u2019t play favorites between you and<br \/>\nhim\/her, will always have kisses<br \/>\nfor you,<\/p>\n<p>but I need someone to romp with,<br \/>\nmaybe a puppy to show the ropes to,<br \/>\nteach him\/her to follow the rules,<br \/>\noutside to do business before play,<br \/>\nnot to bark at the mailman because<br \/>\nhe\u2019s our friend, though I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nwhy. He\u2019s never brought me anything.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. I\u2019ll teach little newbie<br \/>\nhow to sit and stay, but no begging<br \/>\nbecause we don\u2019t beg here. Dinner<br \/>\nis always yummy, eat it all and then<br \/>\nyou get a treat. No hogging the bed,<br \/>\nyour pillow is off limits, and never<br \/>\never under any duress, take your shoes<br \/>\nor slippers or stinky socks.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say? Can I share you,<br \/>\ncan you share me, and make room<br \/>\nfor number three?<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #6 You and Me and He\/She I\u2019m lonely when you\u2019re not home and I know you need to go to work to make bone money, yeah money to buy bones, but it\u2019s so quiet when you\u2019re not here. Can you get me a brother&#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-111937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111937","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=111937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111955,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111937\/revisions\/111955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}