{"id":26282,"date":"2016-08-14T01:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2016-08-14T01:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:27:48","slug":"gifts-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/gifts-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once heard about a dog near death<br \/>\nhis owners granted his last wish<br \/>\nfor cheeseburgers<\/p>\n<p>He lay, unmoving on the floor<br \/>\nhadn&#8217;t moved for days<br \/>\nthey sat around to say<br \/>\ntheir goodbyes and cry and hug<br \/>\nan to gift him with a feast<br \/>\na celebration of his life<br \/>\nin the form of cheeseburgers<\/p>\n<p>The dog saw the cheeseburgers,<br \/>\njumped to his feet,<br \/>\ngulped down the delicious treats<br \/>\nand proceeded to live 2 more years.<\/p>\n<p>So when I look as if I&#8217;ve given up<br \/>\nI task you with the very important job<br \/>\nof finding<br \/>\nwhat exactly cheeseburgers mean to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once heard about a dog near death his owners granted his last wish for cheeseburgers He lay, unmoving on the floor hadn&#8217;t moved for days they sat around to say their goodbyes and cry and hug an to gift him with a feast a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282","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\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26603,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}