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Gentle Giant (Goobah Loobah)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Loading up our luggage, ready<\/p>\n to hit the road,<\/p>\n detouring south<\/p>\n down your driveway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This precious, perfect pup, Dottie,<\/p>\n sat shotgun back<\/p>\n to Dallas. We<\/p>\n welcomed her home.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My dear dorky DotDot, ’til the<\/p>\n day we met, I<\/p>\n never knew how<\/p>\n much I’d need you.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ****A traditional minute poem is composed of 60 syllables split among three stanzas, with each stanza having four lines where the syllabic count is 8\/4\/4\/4. Traditional minute poems are written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff. I couldn’t put a true traditional minute poem together in a day, let alone an hour. So for the sake of saving time as well as what remains of my so-called sanity, I eliminated the constraints of rhyme and meter, devolving into the nontraditional minute format seen above. Our dog, DotDot, was a detour, taking us about two hours out of the way. But she’s brought such joy and love and laughter to our lives, the drive was definitely worth it!****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gentle Giant (Goobah Loobah) Loading up our luggage, ready to hit the road, detouring south down your driveway. This precious, perfect pup, Dottie, sat shotgun back to Dallas. We welcomed her home. My dear dorky DotDot, ’til the day we met,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122727","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\/122727","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123128,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122727\/revisions\/123128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}