{"id":114339,"date":"2022-06-25T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114339"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:19:13","slug":"hour-10-skeptical-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-10-skeptical-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 10 Skeptical Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skeptical turtle<\/p>\n<p>pokes his head out<\/p>\n<p>peering ahead<\/p>\n<p>squinting in the sunlight<\/p>\n<p>watches the other turtles bathing by the river<\/p>\n<p>whence inside his shell<\/p>\n<p>didn\u2019t \u00a0like the topic last night<\/p>\n<p>not sure if he agreed<\/p>\n<p>that it was the best thing to sun bathe or not<\/p>\n<p>the sun is too hot and<\/p>\n<p>his legs are short and slow<\/p>\n<p>easy prey for the children playing in the river<\/p>\n<p>not wanting to be poked by a stick \u2014<\/p>\n<p>poking his head out<\/p>\n<p>turning it left then right<\/p>\n<p>pops his head in again<\/p>\n<p>pulls in his feet<\/p>\n<p>he\u2019s done for the day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skeptical turtle pokes his head out peering ahead squinting in the sunlight watches the other turtles bathing by the river whence inside his shell didn\u2019t \u00a0like the topic last night not sure if he agreed that it was the best thing to sun bathe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114339","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\/4308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114450,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114339\/revisions\/114450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}