{"id":133024,"date":"2023-09-02T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133024"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:54:30","slug":"shhht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/shhht\/","title":{"rendered":"“Shhht”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cShhht\u201d<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cHey! Shhht!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What\u2019s a way to get your crush\u2019s attention?<\/p>\n

Walk up all sly, slip on a smile<\/p>\n

then drop a pickup line:<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I in heaven?<\/p>\n

because I see an angel in front of me?\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Or do you blow a whistle while<\/p>\n

jumping up down<\/p>\n

calling out their name<\/p>\n

to make them turn around<\/p>\n

to the tune of \u201cBrown Eyes\u201d?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Are you the kind that<\/p>\n

orders a drink and yells,<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mere!\u201d<\/p>\n

And try to impress them<\/p>\n

with an old joke,<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did the chicken cross the road?\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nah.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We natives have a way to get your attention.<\/p>\n

We call it the \u201cmating call\u201d.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sound that comes naturally<\/p>\n

When we see someone we like,<\/p>\n

and warn strangers to be wary of it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It sounds like a short electric static<\/p>\n

with urgency.<\/p>\n

It can make you turn around confusion<\/p>\n

and face us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cShhht!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your clans?\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So, as a native telling non-natives.<\/p>\n

Beware of noises that come from behind,<\/p>\n

it can either be a mating call<\/p>\n

or just some noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShhht\u201d   \u201cHey! Shhht!\u201d   What\u2019s a way to get your crush\u2019s attention? Walk up all sly, slip on a smile then drop a pickup line: \u201cAm I in heaven? because I see an angel in front of me?\u201d   Or do you blow a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133024","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133060,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133024\/revisions\/133060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}