{"id":116165,"date":"2022-06-25T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116165"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:38:17","slug":"the-gift-of-snow-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-gift-of-snow-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Snow (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow was once my daughter\u2019s cat and now she is family.<\/p>\n<p>Our sassy and comforting tabby cautiously enters a room looking for a safe place to hide.<\/p>\n<p>I am convinced she bares the soul of my mother, the temperament of my daughter, the talents of my son, and the intuition of my partner.<\/p>\n<p>When I see her watching me, I wonder what does she see?<\/p>\n<p>Like a magnet attracted to energy, when I\u2019m being silly, she prepares for a vicious attack and when I\u2019m feeling low, she comes by my side slowly for cuddles.<\/p>\n<p>I look for her when she needs space to make sure she is ok and on early mornings we sit out on the back porch together listening to the sounds of our forest.<\/p>\n<p>Snow was once my daughter\u2019s cat and now she is family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-116191\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-917x1024.jpg 917w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-768x858.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-1375x1536.jpg 1375w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_201857-1834x2048.jpg 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-116193 \" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220625_200833-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow was once my daughter\u2019s cat and now she is family. Our sassy and comforting tabby cautiously enters a room looking for a safe place to hide. I am convinced she bares the soul of my mother, the temperament of my daughter, the talents of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116165","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\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116269,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116165\/revisions\/116269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}