{"id":117332,"date":"2022-06-25T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117332"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:30:54","slug":"spider-and-the-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spider-and-the-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider and the Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We gathered around our elders, in a circle<\/p>\n<p>It was story time<\/p>\n<p>Anancy the Spider and Patou the Owl<\/p>\n<p>Jamaican folklore, pit these two against each other<br \/>\nAnancy Mr. Bragadocious, had no humility<br \/>\nThe Owl cannot see in the day<\/p>\n<p>Both hosted a party<br \/>\nPatou the disc jockey<br \/>\nAnancy the look-out-man<br \/>\nHis job to tell the Owl how close it was to daylight<br \/>\nParty in full swing and Patou had all the girls<br \/>\nAnancy plotted to embarrass Patou<br \/>\nEverytime Patou would check with Anancy , how late it was<br \/>\nHe would say all is well<\/p>\n<p>Patou played way into the morning and at daylight Anancy opened the door, sun streaming in shouting to all Patou&#8217;s admirers<br \/>\n&#8220;See the man you&#8217;ve been fawning over<br \/>\nDo you see how ugly he is?&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom that day the Owl has never been seen in the day.<br \/>\nThe Owl does his best work at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We gathered around our elders, in a circle It was story time Anancy the Spider and Patou the Owl Jamaican folklore, pit these two against each other Anancy Mr. Bragadocious, had no humility The Owl cannot see in the day Both hosted a party&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117332","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\/4537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117394,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117332\/revisions\/117394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}