{"id":118900,"date":"2022-06-26T02:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118900"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:15:17","slug":"unknown-animals-hour-17-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/unknown-animals-hour-17-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Animals &#8211; Hour 17 Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fossils are an incredibly rare occurrence<br \/>\nthere were beings walking here<br \/>\nbeyond our comprehension<br \/>\nand their colors, flumes, tooth and claw, maw and diets<br \/>\nwe will never know<br \/>\nSharks and alligators unchanged for millions and millions of years<br \/>\nperfect predators, still share our home<br \/>\nIs it unlikely others have stayed around as well?<\/p>\n<p>New species are discovered in the depths of caves, oceans, and rainforests<br \/>\ncritters long thought passed pop up unexpectedly<br \/>\nLong necked, early Jurassic beasts may not be lurking in lakes<br \/>\nraising humps<br \/>\nBut their ancient sturgeon brethren may<br \/>\nNatives had tales of the Hairy Men, The Wise Men of the Mountain<br \/>\nthe link is still missing<br \/>\nJackalopes hanging on the Wall Drug wall in Wyoming aren&#8217;t real<br \/>\nexcept we made them real<\/p>\n<p>Just because<br \/>\nwe don&#8217;t know for sure that they are here<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t mean they haven&#8217;t been here<br \/>\nor that they aren&#8217;t real simply from the magic of our imaginations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossils are an incredibly rare occurrence there were beings walking here beyond our comprehension and their colors, flumes, tooth and claw, maw and diets we will never know Sharks and alligators unchanged for millions and millions of years perfect predators, still share our home Is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118900","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\/4730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119295,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118900\/revisions\/119295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}