{"id":21548,"date":"2016-08-13T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21548"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:58:43","slug":"red-dot-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/red-dot-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Dot Angst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where is it?<br \/>\nThe red dot that traces the walls,<br \/>\nthere it is!<br \/>\non the roof taunting me,<br \/>\nout of reach,<br \/>\nI will jump on the book case to see if I can get a closer look at the source of its existence,<br \/>\nIt trembles a little,<br \/>\nbouncing up and down,<br \/>\nI jump at it,<br \/>\nclosing my fur covered hands around it,<br \/>\nI open my white covered hands and it is gone,<br \/>\nIt was here a second before,<br \/>\nhow will I find it,<br \/>\nthere it is!<br \/>\ncrawling across the floor,<br \/>\npacing up towards the couch,<br \/>\nI got this,<br \/>\njumping onto the couch&#8211; I grab the dot,<br \/>\nIt is&#8211;<br \/>\nMINE!<br \/>\nhands open,<br \/>\nunobtainable,<br \/>\nI forfeit this round and lay down on my bed,<br \/>\nchin rested on my hands,<br \/>\nI try to clear my mind,<br \/>\nred dot, red dot, red dot,<br \/>\ntaunting whispers,<br \/>\ntickled whiskers,<br \/>\nAll I see is red dots,<br \/>\ncover my head in the blankets,<br \/>\nsuccumbing to the torture of red dots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is it? The red dot that traces the walls, there it is! on the roof taunting me, out of reach, I will jump on the book case to see if I can get a closer look at the source of its existence, It trembles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21548","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\/21548","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\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21745,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions\/21745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}