{"id":119301,"date":"2022-06-26T02:12:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119301"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:12:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:12:26","slug":"hour-18-the-first-kitten-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-18-the-first-kitten-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18 &#8211; The First Kitten &#8211; Text Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Kitten<\/p>\n<p>She had been expecting<br \/>\nFor quite a while<br \/>\nAnd told me as much loudly<br \/>\nThat she was with child<br \/>\nAt first I could not know<br \/>\nI\u2019d never seen a queen<br \/>\nBut then it was obvious<br \/>\nAnd nearly too late to be seen<br \/>\nSo I set up spaces<br \/>\nThe future mother could rest<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t not know what I was doing<br \/>\nAnd trusted momma knew best.<\/p>\n<p>She grew wide, as did the father<br \/>\nA chonky duo, proud as otters<br \/>\nThen the day in question came<br \/>\nMuch to my surprise<br \/>\nFebruary 18th<br \/>\nAt just 6 am<br \/>\nContractions made her bolt from<br \/>\nThe nest in which she sleeps.<br \/>\nAnd on the ground plopped the first<br \/>\nA silver tabby kitten<br \/>\nWe spent that day together<br \/>\nBut at the first I was smitten.<\/p>\n<p>5 more were born of course<br \/>\nBut I was just so proud<br \/>\nThat while momma cat was birthing<br \/>\nShe had sought me out.<br \/>\nI stood guard, to the queen<br \/>\nI helped them out,<br \/>\nShe groomed them clean<br \/>\nAnd all was well 10 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Kitten She had been expecting For quite a while And told me as much loudly That she was with child At first I could not know I\u2019d never seen a queen But then it was obvious And nearly too late to be seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5066,5491,5010,514,374,2212,619,5493,5492,15,228,10,355,4967,5494,1084],"class_list":["post-119301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-full-marathon","tag-2022-hour-18","tag-2022-marathon","tag-birth","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-joy","tag-kitten","tag-kittens","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon-2022","tag-queening","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119301","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\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119307,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119301\/revisions\/119307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}