{"id":23025,"date":"2016-08-13T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23025"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:33:52","slug":"joined-at-the-hip-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/joined-at-the-hip-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Joined at the Hip  #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joined at the Hip<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a new hip and her name is Nellie<\/p>\n<p>She can hear the phone ring before it rings<\/p>\n<p>Titanium with lovely long screws<\/p>\n<p>We are never apart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>October is our anniversary, our first<\/p>\n<p>We travel to Dartmouth to visit<\/p>\n<p>The tall dark handsome Italian surgeon<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Long Island, he&#8217;s married<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nellie is silent during our exam<\/p>\n<p>I hold her when they take x-rays<\/p>\n<p>She is brave and leans just the right way<\/p>\n<p>I whisper to him of her sister&#8217;s impending arrival<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the way home we stop at that homemade ice cream shop<\/p>\n<p>Nellie declines worrying about the extra weight<\/p>\n<p>I <em>poo poo\u00a0<\/em>her and enjoy a large maple walnut cone<\/p>\n<p>She does not make me feel guilty, I love her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joined at the Hip &nbsp; I have a new hip and her name is Nellie She can hear the phone ring before it rings Titanium with lovely long screws We are never apart &nbsp; October is our anniversary, our first We travel to Dartmouth to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24505,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions\/24505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}