{"id":118796,"date":"2022-06-26T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118796"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:03:01","slug":"if-i-had-a-dragon-hour-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/if-i-had-a-dragon-hour-17\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had a Dragon (hour 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dragon is a loving pet<\/p>\n<p>perched atop my castle, yet<\/p>\n<p>he needs not a largish cave<\/p>\n<p>just three-feet-tall<\/p>\n<p>with wings a-wave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His flames, they warm my hearth of old<\/p>\n<p>and next to me, he heats bed cold<\/p>\n<p>when hunger comes, he does a trick<\/p>\n<p>catch, then kill, and braise it quick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If criminals should come to call<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019d laugh at him, but then soon fall<\/p>\n<p>his razor claws around their ears<\/p>\n<p>and flee they would, with smoking rears.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My friends all love this purple guy<\/p>\n<p>they travel far to meet and fly<\/p>\n<p>and anytime we want to see<\/p>\n<p>our most favorite country<\/p>\n<p>France, we swiftly soar to thee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reality, I\u2019d trade ye any day<\/p>\n<p>to own this wee dragon, and stay<\/p>\n<p>happily flapping in the sky<\/p>\n<p>content to live and play with Fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 26, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dragon is a loving pet perched atop my castle, yet he needs not a largish cave just three-feet-tall with wings a-wave. &nbsp; His flames, they warm my hearth of old and next to me, he heats bed cold when hunger comes, he does a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118796","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119103,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118796\/revisions\/119103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}