{"id":114387,"date":"2022-06-25T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114387"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:27:41","slug":"my-patient-cat-a-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/my-patient-cat-a-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Patient Cat: A Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My patient cat waits for me<br \/>\nto finish reading. She knows<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll feed her.<\/p>\n<p>She gets up from my keyboard<br \/>\nwhen I need to work. Waits<br \/>\nfor my lap until I&#8217;ve finished<br \/>\neating, writing, chopping vegetables.<br \/>\nObeys when I tell her to stay off the counter.<\/p>\n<p>If her bowl is empty at night, she waits<br \/>\nuntil I wake up in the morning<br \/>\nShe would never wake me by licking my forehead<br \/>\nuntil she has my attention.<\/p>\n<p>If she needs a drink from the filter tap,<br \/>\nshe stands by until the sink is empty<br \/>\nbefore she jumps in. <\/p>\n<p>What a well-behaved cat Sissy is.<br \/>\nOh hell, who am I kidding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My patient cat waits for me to finish reading. She knows I&#8217;ll feed her. She gets up from my keyboard when I need to work. Waits for my lap until I&#8217;ve finished eating, writing, chopping vegetables. Obeys when I tell her to stay off the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114603,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387\/revisions\/114603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}