{"id":115234,"date":"2022-06-25T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115234"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:18:04","slug":"dogspeak-11-welcome-home-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-11-welcome-home-but\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak #11  Welcome Home But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #11 Welcome Home But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to alarm you<br \/>\nbut did you leave the door open last night<br \/>\nor this morning before you left for work?<br \/>\nWhen I got up around 10 this morning,<br \/>\nI found an intruder in the house.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not blaming you and I would protect<br \/>\nyour life at all costs but I don\u2019t like knowing<br \/>\nthere\u2019s a stranger roaming around our house.<\/p>\n<p>I saw him this morning in the bedroom<br \/>\nbut he didn\u2019t follow me downstairs;<br \/>\nhe\u2019s not in the kitchen or dining room,<br \/>\nnot lounging on the couch with me<br \/>\nwhen I woke up around 3.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I\u2019m not a coward but I didn\u2019t go back<br \/>\ninto the bedroom to see if he was still there.<br \/>\nI listened in the hall but all was quiet. He\u2019s<br \/>\nbig and maybe just a little mean looking<br \/>\nso now that you\u2019re home, let\u2019s go see. Come on,<br \/>\nfollow me, I\u2019ll protect you. Ok, push the door<br \/>\nopen, stay close at my heels in case<br \/>\nI need to pounce on him.<\/p>\n<p>See? There he is, he\u2019s huge, and well<br \/>\nmaybe a little cute too, ok handsome. Oh,<br \/>\nlook, he likes you, his tail is wagging, hey,<br \/>\njust like mine. He\u2019s&#8230; he looks&#8230;<br \/>\nwhat?<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s a mirror?<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #11 Welcome Home But&#8230; I don\u2019t want to alarm you but did you leave the door open last night or this morning before you left for work? When I got up around 10 this morning, I found an intruder in the house. I\u2019m not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115255,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115234\/revisions\/115255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}