{"id":126953,"date":"2023-09-02T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126953"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:31:35","slug":"weaning-too-young-a-canine-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/weaning-too-young-a-canine-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 1 &#8211; Weaning Too Young &#8211; A Canine Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127081\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shepherd-dog-2260368_1280-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shepherd-dog-2260368_1280-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shepherd-dog-2260368_1280-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shepherd-dog-2260368_1280-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/shepherd-dog-2260368_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Image Courtesy of Pixabay<\/p>\n<p>I held her in my hand,<\/p>\n<p>A newborn<\/p>\n<p>German Shepherd pup;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too soon, Little One,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I whispered,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll need at least six more weeks<\/p>\n<p>Of suckling<\/p>\n<p>In order to survive<\/p>\n<p>And grow up strong&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But of course, she didn\u2019t understand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And then, her mom took over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With the expertise<\/p>\n<p>Of a Canine Mom<\/p>\n<p>She nursed her pup to life<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antoinette <span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">LeRoux<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/strong><strong>\u00a9 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Courtesy of Pixabay I held her in my hand, A newborn German Shepherd pup; \u201cIt\u2019s too soon, Little One,\u201d I whispered, \u201cYou\u2019ll need at least six more weeks Of suckling In order to survive And grow up strong&#8230;\u201d But of course, she didn\u2019t understand&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126953","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126953"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136078,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126953\/revisions\/136078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}