{"id":115587,"date":"2022-06-25T20:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115587"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:30:40","slug":"if-dogs-cannot-smell-hour-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/if-dogs-cannot-smell-hour-10\/","title":{"rendered":"If Dogs Cannot Smell (hour 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If dogs cannot smell<\/p>\n<p>butts they cannot nose well<\/p>\n<p>to determine friend or foe<\/p>\n<p>may as well be in hell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our airports, sans sniffers<\/p>\n<p>would send drugs out unhindered<\/p>\n<p>these same dogs, without owners<\/p>\n<p>would be abandoned in hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No smell means no joy<\/p>\n<p>taste is marred, meat is spoiled<\/p>\n<p>treats seem like cardboard<\/p>\n<p>training makes canines sore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man\u2019s best friend<\/p>\n<p>even that would now end<\/p>\n<p>smell brings these two together<\/p>\n<p>without, this love dies,<\/p>\n<p>bones a-scatter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If dogs cannot smell butts they cannot nose well to determine friend or foe may as well be in hell. &nbsp; Our airports, sans sniffers would send drugs out unhindered these same dogs, without owners would be abandoned in hours. &nbsp; No smell means no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115587","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116160,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115587\/revisions\/116160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}