{"id":116291,"date":"2022-06-25T20:46:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116291"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:46:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:46:56","slug":"the-unconcerned-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-unconcerned-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unconcerned Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Past the river, and through the jungle,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There lives a lion,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In its den,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It prowls around at the mouth of its cave,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Circling the air as if it\u2019s trying to catch invisible prey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It never hunts nor leaves it cave,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But sits around lazily,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Waiting for its mate to bring home the food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first glance it may seem menacing,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the lazy lion,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will attack nothing but the air in the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As days go on it hides in its cave,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Refusing to test the waters,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The unconcerned Lion,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does nothing but sit and yawn.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Past the river, and through the jungle, There lives a lion, In its den, It prowls around at the mouth of its cave, Circling the air as if it\u2019s trying to catch invisible prey. It never hunts nor leaves it cave, But sits around lazily,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,2114],"tags":[4909,5313,5312,680],"class_list":["post-116291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-jungle","tag-lion","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116291","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\/2897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116416,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116291\/revisions\/116416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}