{"id":135734,"date":"2023-09-02T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135734"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:08:49","slug":"hour-11-my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-11-my-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11 &#8211; My Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Best Friend<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My best friend always bites me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She\u2019s happy drawing blood<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though I know she loves me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She\u2019d kill me if she could.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She eats me out of house and home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And makes me take her crap<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And though she lives inside my home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve only seen her nap<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She never works, she\u2019ll never help,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just lays around all day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But even if I could get help,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">she&#8217;d never go away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end I love her like I love nobody else<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because even when she hurts me, it\u2019s just a minor flog<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And as something else,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My landlord won\u2019t let me have a dog.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Best Friend &nbsp; My best friend always bites me, She\u2019s happy drawing blood Though I know she loves me, She\u2019d kill me if she could. &nbsp; She eats me out of house and home And makes me take her crap And though she lives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135734","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\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135744,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135734\/revisions\/135744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}