{"id":111965,"date":"2022-06-25T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111965"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:55:55","slug":"in-memory-of-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/in-memory-of-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111975\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/spot-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/spot-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/spot.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spot quietly accepted his role as family dog<br \/>\nate cereal from a spoon<br \/>\nwore a bib<br \/>\nput up with me.<\/p>\n<p>Learned to sit up<br \/>\nand say, \u201cPlease.\u201d<br \/>\nRan to meet me<br \/>\nwhen I came home from school.<\/p>\n<p>Never complained about being saddled<br \/>\nwith a name from Dick and Jane.<br \/>\nSlept in the basement.<br \/>\nAte Red Heart dog food from a can.<\/p>\n<p>Barked at the mailman.<br \/>\nBroke his back leg.<br \/>\nThumped around in a cast.<\/p>\n<p>Stayed out of the frontroom<br \/>\nand off from the furniture.<br \/>\nKnew his place.<\/p>\n<p>Except when he didn\u2019t.<br \/>\nExcept when he escaped out the back screen door<br \/>\nand raced free through the neighborhood,<br \/>\nlooking for girl dogs,<br \/>\nenticing them,<br \/>\nand fathering lots of little Spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spot quietly accepted his role as family dog ate cereal from a spoon wore a bib put up with me. Learned to sit up and say, \u201cPlease.\u201d Ran to meet me when I came home from school. Never complained about being saddled with a name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111990,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965\/revisions\/111990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}