{"id":140718,"date":"2023-09-03T03:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140718"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:18:46","slug":"poem-19-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-19-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playful predator begs for attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whiny and responsive, he demands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for his creature comforts. Like a fly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">begging for escape through that damn\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">window. He demands for any kind of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stimulation he can get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The thinker indulges the predator\u2019s impulses,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leading with a great red frown. His finger<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guides him atop wood tables for writing and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amongst teal plush for lovers to be loving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Appeased, the predator lays beside me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">breathing his slow fiery breaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recuperating with eyes so bright and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">focused. That the thinker rushes to<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take time to think once more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the predator begs for attention<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playful predator begs for attention. Whiny and responsive, he demands for his creature comforts. Like a fly\u00a0 begging for escape through that damn\u00a0 window. He demands for any kind of\u00a0 stimulation he can get. &nbsp; The thinker indulges the predator\u2019s impulses, Leading with a great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140718","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\/5300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140722,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140718\/revisions\/140722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}