{"id":114542,"date":"2022-06-25T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114542"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:30:06","slug":"poem-10-to-be-kind-humans-and-gentle-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-10-to-be-kind-humans-and-gentle-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 10. To Be Kind Humans and Gentle Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">A bear greeted them<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">gently on their wooded path<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">would they be so kind<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">as to share a cookie or<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">perhaps a half a sandwich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">In my head he spoke<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">a proper British accent, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">but it could have been<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">any polite whisper I <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">suppose, being a bear and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">all who speaks instead<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">of growls. With sandwich in hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">he further asked to<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">join them on their midday hike<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">and being such a gentle <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">and such a strong bear,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">he carried all the backpacks.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">When his friends saw him<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">not eating his new hiking<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">pals, they taunted and teased him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">But, the gentle bear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">offered the others halves of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">sandwiches, too, which<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">filled their bellies and softened<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">their big and growly bear hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px\">They all walked along<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">together, with the hikers <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">sharing their canteens<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">And the bears picking the most<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px\">perfect berries on the trail<\/span><\/p>\n<p>for them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bear greeted them gently on their wooded path would they be so kind as to share a cookie or perhaps a half a sandwich. In my head he spoke a proper British accent, but it could have been any polite whisper I suppose, being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114542","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114640,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114542\/revisions\/114640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}