{"id":117751,"date":"2022-06-25T23:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117751"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:09:34","slug":"dogspeak-13-bubble-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dogspeak-13-bubble-time\/","title":{"rendered":"DogSpeak #13  Bubble Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #13 Bubble Time<\/p>\n<p>I love bubbles.<br \/>\nMommy bought me<br \/>\nthese things she calls toys<br \/>\nbut I can\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n<p>They make noise and when<br \/>\nI hear the motor start, I run<br \/>\nfrom wherever I am. It\u2019s<br \/>\nbubble time!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m spoiled; I have a blue<br \/>\nthing, a yellow thing, and<br \/>\nthe green thing is real loud.<br \/>\nI love them all.<\/p>\n<p>Once, we played in the kitchen<br \/>\nbut Daddy said it was too messy<br \/>\nso now we only play outside.<br \/>\nBubble time!<\/p>\n<p>Daddy says he\u2019s buying stock<br \/>\nin a battery company. Mommy<br \/>\npours in some stuff; I stand<br \/>\nbeside the thing and wait.<\/p>\n<p>The blue thing turns in a circle,<br \/>\nthe yellow one like a carousel,<br \/>\nthe green one spins sideways;<br \/>\nI like that one best.<\/p>\n<p>After what feels like a dog year,<br \/>\nbubbles pop out and fly \u2013 windy<br \/>\ndays they fly in my face and I get<br \/>\na little scared but just for a second.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I chase the bubbles to see<br \/>\nhow many I can eat. I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nwhat they taste like but I like them.<br \/>\nWe play, bubbles and me!<\/p>\n<p>When Mommy turns off the thing,<br \/>\nI chuff. She says I\u2019m a soapy mess<br \/>\nand need a bath. I hate that word<br \/>\nand I run to hide in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Daddy laughs, baths are bubble time<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s not I tell him from my muddy<br \/>\nplace in the garden. It\u2019s not, I whine,<br \/>\nit\u2019s not the same, but I get a bath anyway.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DogSpeak #13 Bubble Time I love bubbles. Mommy bought me these things she calls toys but I can\u2019t have them. They make noise and when I hear the motor start, I run from wherever I am. It\u2019s bubble time! I\u2019m spoiled; I have a blue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117751","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117756,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117751\/revisions\/117756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}