{"id":117133,"date":"2022-06-25T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117133"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:03:00","slug":"the-aggressive-giraffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-aggressive-giraffe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aggressive Giraffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The Aggressive Giraffe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI can\u2019t believe the library is closing early today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone must get out of my way,\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barked Annie, the aggressive giraffe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA three-day weekend with the kids off at camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My husband laid up with writer\u2019s cramp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I need a new book and a fresh cup of tea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pulling into the lot with minutes to spare,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annie stormed through the doors without a care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI need a new book, a mystery or thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around the shelves, she started to sprint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019d prefer a book with extremely large print.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The one\u2019s with fine print are a pain in my neck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The librarian brought her a stack of the latest fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annie skimmed through them all with great conviction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI thought you had the latest John Grisham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her long neck allowed her to spot it across the room<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt will be mine,\u201d Annie assumed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She raced to the book without a care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knocking down people and toppling stacks of books<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The entire building trembled and shook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The aggressive giraffe was almost there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Touching the book on the tip of its corner,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">her fingers slipped off and she became a mourner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou snooze, you lose,\u201d said a prickly hedgehog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aggressive Giraffe \u201cI can\u2019t believe the library is closing early today. Everyone must get out of my way,\u201d Barked Annie, the aggressive giraffe. \u201cA three-day weekend with the kids off at camp. My husband laid up with writer\u2019s cramp. I need a new book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117133","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117142,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117133\/revisions\/117142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}