{"id":115006,"date":"2022-06-25T19:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115006"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:02:10","slug":"the-empty-bowls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-empty-bowls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Bowls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They sit in a corner,<\/p>\n<p>filled up twice a day,<\/p>\n<p>the sound of food and water<\/p>\n<p>making the metal ping happily,<\/p>\n<p>bringing canine joy<\/p>\n<p>in the form of wagging tail,<\/p>\n<p>shiny puppy-dog eyes,<\/p>\n<p>and kisses of furry gratefulness.<\/p>\n<p>Sight and sound of sweet dog<\/p>\n<p>snuffling as she eats,<\/p>\n<p>lapping up water as she drinks,<\/p>\n<p>is welcome and familiar.<\/p>\n<p>One day, those noises<\/p>\n<p>will go away,<\/p>\n<p>leaving behind only the<\/p>\n<p>lonely empty bowls,<\/p>\n<p>and we will miss their mealtime music.<\/p>\n<p>But for now that song plays on happily<\/p>\n<p>twice a day,<\/p>\n<p>and we love to hear its sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sit in a corner, filled up twice a day, the sound of food and water making the metal ping happily, bringing canine joy in the form of wagging tail, shiny puppy-dog eyes, and kisses of furry gratefulness. Sight and sound of sweet dog snuffling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12],"tags":[680,605],"class_list":["post-115006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115006","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\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115179,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115006\/revisions\/115179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}