{"id":21061,"date":"2016-08-13T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21061"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:37:02","slug":"v-ode-upon-an-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/v-ode-upon-an-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"V.  Ode Upon an Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21129\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Katie-and-Eric-025-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Katie and Eric 025\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Katie-and-Eric-025-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Katie-and-Eric-025-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Katie-and-Eric-025-1024x766.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t pet the alligator,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t throw rocks and aggravate her.<br \/>\nWith her crooked, toothy smile,<br \/>\nShe can chase your for a mile.<br \/>\nAnd DON&#8217;T go riding on her back,<br \/>\nOr she may have you for a snack.<br \/>\nOn this, your life may just depend,<br \/>\nThe alligator ain&#8217;t your friend.<\/p>\n<p>Art: North Fork of the St. Lucie River 2012 by Virginia Galfo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t pet the alligator, don&#8217;t throw rocks and aggravate her. With her crooked, toothy smile, She can chase your for a mile. And DON&#8217;T go riding on her back, Or she may have you for a snack. On this, your life may just depend,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1546,1547],"class_list":["post-21061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-alligator","tag-rhyming-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061","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\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21193,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}