{"id":143548,"date":"2023-09-03T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143548"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:35:22","slug":"2324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2324\/","title":{"rendered":"23~24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>feeling his bones<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>through his<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>paper~thin skin<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>wound on his belly\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>a tumor i&#8217;m sure<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>deadly? ~who knows<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>so many worries<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>but for me, he eats<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>for me, he drinks<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>purring loudly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>by my side<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>we drift off to sleep<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>as i stroke his still<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>silky light fur<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>ounces adding<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>on the scale<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>every time<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>i check<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>eyes still bright<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>the most beautiful blue<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>i&#8217;ve ever seen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>we share so many slow~blinks<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>you&#8217;d never guess how wild he was<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>when he first found me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>holding and snuggling him<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>wishing magic\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>into his medicines<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>we wait<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>we love<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>we hope<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feeling his bones through his paper~thin skin wound on his belly\u00a0 a tumor i&#8217;m sure deadly? ~who knows so many worries but for me, he eats for me, he drinks purring loudly by my side we drift off to sleep as i stroke his still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143548","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143753,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143548\/revisions\/143753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}