{"id":114304,"date":"2022-06-25T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114304"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:22:19","slug":"the-blunt-nosed-leopard-lizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-blunt-nosed-leopard-lizards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blunt Nosed Leopard Lizards &#8211; hour TEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late at night<\/p>\n<p>A blunt nosed leopard lizard couple<\/p>\n<p>burst into song from<\/p>\n<p>the base of an abandoned oil rig just east of Taft<\/p>\n<p>stubby faces alight with pleasure<\/p>\n<p>as they pursue Puccini.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Che gelida manina,&#8221; he croons. She swoons<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; as is only appropriate, given the subject matter,<\/p>\n<p>and the kit foxes guffaw because<\/p>\n<p>while their tails may be long<\/p>\n<p>the blunt nosed leopard lizard&#8217;s hands<\/p>\n<p>are, in fact, exceedingly tiny.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late at night A blunt nosed leopard lizard couple burst into song from the base of an abandoned oil rig just east of Taft stubby faces alight with pleasure as they pursue Puccini. &#8220;Che gelida manina,&#8221; he croons. She swoons &#8212; as is only appropriate,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114304","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\/114304","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\/4534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124716,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114304\/revisions\/124716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}