{"id":23920,"date":"2016-08-13T19:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23920"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:10:55","slug":"two-brown-eyes-and-two-floppy-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/two-brown-eyes-and-two-floppy-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Two brown eyes and two floppy ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A discarded eyeball next to the bookcase<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A fluffy arm in a sunbeam<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A half chewed stuffed mascot under the couch<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A tail dancing at the door\u2019s first creak<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A pair of brown butter eyes keen gaze on the street<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An eager dance partner to silent music<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A liquid body luxuriating on the bed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A warm presence on the couch<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(and shadow for every other room)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dishwasher, guardian, explorer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All contained in one creature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given only a tail, four legs and a nose by nature<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The creature as we know it: the first good choice of humanity<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discarded eyeball next to the bookcase A fluffy arm in a sunbeam A half chewed stuffed mascot under the couch &nbsp; A tail dancing at the door\u2019s first creak A pair of brown butter eyes keen gaze on the street An eager dance partner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920","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\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23924,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23920\/revisions\/23924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}