{"id":17947,"date":"2016-08-13T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17947"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:39:47","slug":"muse-1-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/muse-1-the-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse #1:  The Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muse #1:\u00a0 The Tiger<\/p>\n<p>Frannie Z<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he brings ecstasy:<\/p>\n<p>his fur ripples when we touch,<\/p>\n<p>and his eyes on fire flash,<\/p>\n<p>but do not menace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he pounces,<\/p>\n<p>and I must dodge his claws<\/p>\n<p>and run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes his feet<\/p>\n<p>surf high ground<\/p>\n<p>as if it\u2019s water,<\/p>\n<p>hills barely touched<\/p>\n<p>by his flight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet I, privileged to watch,<\/p>\n<p>feel as if I\u2019m borne away<\/p>\n<p>by speed and time<\/p>\n<p>and he, the one who bolts,<\/p>\n<p>seems motionless,<\/p>\n<p>fenced off by the thick grass<\/p>\n<p>of a savannah.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heads cocked and raised,<\/p>\n<p>we both sniff hot, dry air,<\/p>\n<p>our eyes leaping, questing<\/p>\n<p>burning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muse #1:\u00a0 The Tiger Frannie Z &nbsp; Sometimes he brings ecstasy: his fur ripples when we touch, and his eyes on fire flash, but do not menace. &nbsp; Sometimes he pounces, and I must dodge his claws and run. &nbsp; Sometimes his feet surf high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17988,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17947\/revisions\/17988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}